The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Worrying is betting against yourself.

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening.

As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

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