What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

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

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.