Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

Once you got three records, you pretty much got 10.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'