Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

We live in condensations of our imagination

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.