Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

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.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.