Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.