Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.