We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

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

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.