If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.

Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.