It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.