Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature's larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.