For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

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

I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.