There is no knowledge without risk taking.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.

We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.