By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.