Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.