The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

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

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.