Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.