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.
Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.
I think that understanding man’s place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
Even a billion people is too much. There’s no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
That’s the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
History is the siren song of the soul.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it’s done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.
You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.