It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

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

I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.

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

What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.