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.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.