We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.