It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.