If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

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

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

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

The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.