But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.