The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.