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.
The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it’s just a gloss. I mean, they’re small, and they have the archetype. They’re more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.
So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.
A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
If you’re truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.
What you call man is time.
Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That’s where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.