It’s as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
One of the things that people don’t do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you’re practicing psychotherapy.
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.
The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That’s the odd paradox of it.
The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.