If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.