The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.