My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars