The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

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

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.