The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.

What is needed, is an awakening.

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

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.