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

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

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.