Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'

The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle