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

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.