I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.