We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.