The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.