One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

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

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.

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