In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

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.

It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.