Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us.
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else’s rules.
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
I’m as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.