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

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

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.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

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.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.