Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

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.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.