As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

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.

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.

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

What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.