The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

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].

I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.