What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.

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.

Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.