There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.

I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.