Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.

What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

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.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.

Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.