The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.