Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.