What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.

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.

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

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.