An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

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

Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!