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.

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom itself is such a mercurial, elusive, Zen sort of personality that I never believe a word it says. I simply entertain its notions and try and sort through them, and I found that to be the most enriching approach to it.

The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.