To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.