"It's something that has occupied artists for centuries, from Blake right through to surrealism- even early modernists like Kandinsky were influenced by occult beliefs. But as an artist practising now I feel it's less important for me to establish what kind of reality all these phenomena exist in. In many ways the possibility that much of this material has been fabricated by very human hands presents me with more opportunities. The fact is, that each and every phenomenon we're discussing exists in some way, at the very least in a cultural space."

ROD DICKINSON, IN CONVERSATION WITH TERENCE MCKENNA, SWIZERLAND JUNE 1995.