Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

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.

My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.