We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

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