Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.