The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it’s just a gloss. I mean, they’re small, and they have the archetype. They’re more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.
So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.
A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
If you’re truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.
What you call man is time.
Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That’s where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.
It’s our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It’s not our political systems.
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That’s the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it’s simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
In a sense, what’s happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.
The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.