We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

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

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

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.