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

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

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

You're immortal as long as you live.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.