What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

Culture is your operating system.