Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

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

LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.