In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

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

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.