In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.
Life. Consider the alternative.
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.