History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

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

What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.