The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

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

I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

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.

The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.