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

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.

I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses

The willingness to become the answer to the needs of other people is what makes a person really successful

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.