What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

In cyberspace things are built out of light.

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

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

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.