The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

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