For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.

For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.