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.

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

Memory training is great psychedelic training.

It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.