50 quotes
One exists in eternity, one has become eternal … One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.
This is where we came from. This is where we are going. And it is only to be approached through cognitive activity.
New Maps of Hyperspace (1989)
We must begin to send out ideological visions rather than be the consumers of them.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
This is in fact what we are caught up in, is a transforming of information.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it's worth.
Eros and the Eschaton lecture (1994)
Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
You need an Ego, if you didn't have an ego you wouldn't know who's mouth to put food in, when eating in a restaurant.
History Ends in Green (1983)
We actually create our own universe because we are all operating with our own private languages.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
I think that we're inside that epoch that stretches from the atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima to the moment of the winter solstice of 2012.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world, you see.
Computer networks, paradoxically enough, are a deeply feminizing influence on society, where, in hardware, the unconscious is actually being created.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
If you believe something, you're automatically precluded from believing in the opposite, which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of this belief.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
There is no dualism in the world of light … One must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever. There is an experience of time zero.
What you see, I think is the morphogenetic field. The invisible world that holds everything together. Not the net of matter and light, but the net of casuistry — of intentionality, of caring, of hope of dream — of thought.
Somewhere around 1945 we began to loot the future as a strategy for survival, some ethical norm was shattered.
History Ends in Green (1983)
synergizing progress is the notion to be maximized ...
Perhaps vanished races are all around us, but downloaded into solid-state matrices that we have only recently come to the point where we could even recognize that possibility.
Technopagans at the End of History (1998)
History is a set of nested resonances with each epoch being shorter than the one that preceded it. This event horizon is like a series of ghost horizons, and once you enter into history, you enter into the outer shell of the temporal field of the attractor or the concrescence.