The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.

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.

The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

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

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

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