Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

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