We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.