As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.