The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

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.

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

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.