Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

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