Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.

The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.