Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me and said, “you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization“. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.