Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.