The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.