And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.