Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.