By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.