I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.