Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.