Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

Mind conjures miracles out of time.