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.

Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.