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 miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

Memory training is great psychedelic training.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

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