At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.