“There is no such thing as recreational drug use.”

We don’t mean that it’s a belief that someone holds.

An organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.

Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are.

Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory.

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it’s a theory.

It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science.

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

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.

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

To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’

So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.

The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.

I was looking for something and I wasn’t sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses,