I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.