The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.