Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.