The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

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.

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.

It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.