We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

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

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules