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.

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.

The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.