We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.