I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'