The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.