Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.