The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.
The universe is an intelligence test.
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you’re unhappy where you are, MOVE.
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don’t take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.
If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you’d never fall in love.
Science is all metaphor.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.
Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.
Grow within the flow.
They’ve outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.
One cannot evolve from one’s robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.