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

The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.