To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.