“Dreams can produce similar pictures of great catastrophes. They can manifest all stages of personal disintegration, so it is no exaggeration to say that the dreamer is normally insane, or that insanity is a dream which has replaced normal consciousness. To say that insanity is…”

“Our hosts are keen to know how we have fared. Was the experience too strong? Were we afraid? Did we see visions? Were we given insights? Did we meet our ancestors? Did we speak with God? But I am too bewildered to give anything like a coherent answer. Yet when we walk…”

“The un-cageable vine reminded me of that first psilocybin trip, when I felt the leaves and plants in the garden returning my gaze. One of the gifts of psychedelics is the way they reanimate the world, as if they were distributing the blessings of consciousness more widely…”

“It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench on the day I finished my hike. Everything except the fact that I didn’t have to know. That it was enough to trust that what I’d done was true. To understand its meaning without yet…”

“Virginia Woolf’s 1927 essay ‘Street Haunting’ is an attempt to claim an ungendered place in the city by walking through it. Out in the street, we become observing entities, ‘part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers’. Whether or not we want…”

“The rigidity of delusional form contrasts dramatically with the elastic nature of content. Delusional contents do more than vary with an individual sufferer’s thoughts: they adapt to culture and morph with history. Indeed, for an illness that is…”

“To this day I’m not sure where I found the strength to leave the source, the mother, disengage from my family, mi tierra, mi gente, and all that picture stood for. I had to leave home so I could find…”

“As a society, we put our trust in the medical profession to develop the best possible clinical care for diseases and ailments of all types. We expect that the profession will be honest with us as it goes about this task. And yet, as we look for ways to stem…”

“What Laura, Peter, Danny, Alana, and Madeline can teach us is that we can all be heroes. They exemplify Thomas Hardy’s words in his poem ‘In Tenebris II’: ‘If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.’ They show us how to…”

“Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extrovertes, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their…”

“At one time or another, most of us have felt trapped by things we find ourselves thinking or doing, caught by our own impulses or foolish choices; ensnared in some unhappiness or fear; imprisoned by our own history. We feel unable…”

“One of the greatest blessings I received as a result of this hemorrhage is that I had the chance to rejuvenate and strengthen my neurocircuits of innocence and inner joy. Thanks to this stroke, I have…”

“Throughout the trip I had been gaining an awareness and an understanding of the earth as I learnt how to depend upon it. The openness and emptiness which had at first threatened me were now a comfort which allowed…”

“Songs can come through in something like a moment of alignment and, at those times, there is very little need for a lot of earthly intentions steering the process. Mostly my songs seem to come through while…”