We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.

We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.