It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

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.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.