The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

What is needed, is an awakening.

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

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.