‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.