That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?