Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.

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.