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

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.