Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.