And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.

Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.