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 world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

What is needed, is an awakening.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.