Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.