I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.