One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.