The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

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

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.