What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.