The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.

People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.