We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.