What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

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