Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

There's only the integrity of doing and having done.