History is the siren song of the soul.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.