50 quotes
If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
We are being sucked into the body of eternity.
We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep levels.
We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient.
We have to understand.
New Maps of Hyperspace (1989)
One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.
New Maps of Hyperspace (1989)
The global destiny of the species is somehow unfolding with the logic of a dream.
The alternative physics is a physics of light. Light is composed of photons, which have no antiparticle. This means that there is no dualism in the world of light.
New Maps of Hyperspace (1989)
History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
We humans may be released into a realm of pure self-engineering. The imagination is everything.
New Maps of Hyperspace (1989)
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
What we need to do is transcend these localized grids of fate, which make us what we are but don't want to be.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules.
New Maps of Hyperspace (1989)
I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there.
I believe that the truth of the matter is far more terrifying, that the real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
We have come to the end of our separateness.'
Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliament, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon.
True Hallucinations (1993)
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
Conspiracy theory, in my humble opinion … is a kind of epistemological cartoon about reality.
If you can turn yourself into a cartoon character, you can retire, and a whole team of people will keep you au courant.
Technopagans at the End of History (1998)