A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

No one knows enough to worry.