"I believe with the advent of acid we discovered new way to think
 and it had to do with piecing together new thoughts of mind. Why
 is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that
 there is scares people so deeply? Because they are afraid that
 there is more to reality than they have ever confronted. That
 there are doors that they're afraid to go in and they don't want
 us to go in there either because if we go in, there we might
 learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little
 out of their control."
From 'The Beyond Within: The Rise and Fall of LSD' (BBC documentary, 1987)

 "He's losing his mind, and feels it going!"

 "You're intoduced to lsd, an' it's not like taking some other
 [bad word] for instance like marijuana or something, hm, well, you
 know, it's altogether a new thing, and you actually can have a
 religious experience, and, hm, and it can be even more important
 than reading the bible six times or [bad word] a pope or something
 like that, you know..."