It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.

The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.