One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.

As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.