You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.

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

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

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