What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

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.

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.