Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.