Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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.
I would argue that it’s almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you’re doing heroin you’re responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you’re mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?
In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.
An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
Time is a series of fluctuating variables.
LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It’s not a personality.
Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.