We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.