I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

Culture is your operating system.

And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.