I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.
And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.
A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It’s changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it’s changing, and there are many many possibilities.
In cyberspace things are built out of light.
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we’ve all been hungering for.
It is the people who are ‘far out’ who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?
I’m meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
Just because you have a nut theory it doesn’t mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there’s a limited pool there that we’re all after.