Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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.

Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

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