The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.

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.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.