The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

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

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.

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.