Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.