The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.

I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?