But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.