Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?