I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.