The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

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

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.