We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.

Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.