The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

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.

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.