If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules