It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.