Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.