The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

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

Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed