Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.