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].

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

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

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas