Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.