So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.

History is the siren song of the soul.

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.