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

Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

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.

What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.