Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.