Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'

The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?