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

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.