People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

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.