The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
There is no question that a society that sets out to control its citizens’ use of drugs sets out on the slippery path to totalitarianism.
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it’s there it doesn’t require your belief- and if it’s not there why should you believe in it?
Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
The human brain is the god of technological innovation.
We can’t sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coercion, brainwashing, and manipulation.