Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.