Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.

What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

For all we know, we know nothing.