It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.