The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.