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.

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.

Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.