What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
Mind conjures miracles out of time.
What we need to change is our minds, that’s the part that’s doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
I’m not an advocate of drugs. I’m an advocate of psychedelics.
The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants.
What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
You aren’t an object. You’re a process of some sort.
If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.