“What the psychedelics seem to me to argue for is that reality is not reality. There may be no reality, but certainly this is not it.”
“This is some kind of highly provisional, culturally sanctioned, hallucination that we are all participating in. Reality is a sustained…”
“Reality, whatever it is, is temporary and yields to non-existence.”
“This whole thing with the psychedelic experience the way cultures lose touch with it is by not being able to say anything about it.”
“The universe is you know a half sphere on the back of a turtle being carried by a dwarf.”
“Nature requires a species such as ourselves to basically to harness energy. We’re energy storage and reuse mechanisms.”
“We are on a higher level doing what the mitochondria did in the abiotic oceans of the earth 1 billion years ago.”
“Sanctioned by nature for some purpose which will be visible somewhere down downstream in the flow of time but which is opaque to us.”
“Nature may have a kind of viewpoint in eternity. Nature may actually see what needs to be done and can plan on a scale of a million or a hundred million years.”
“Every body and the solar system, all of the inner planets, all of their moons, all of the solid bodies that are around the gas giants in the outer solar system, every piece of rock in the entire solar system has just been hammered to pieces by asteroid and planettesimal in full. And we prefer not to think about this as recently as last January, and what’s called an Apollo asteroid crossed within a half-looner distance of the Earth. This is hair-raisingly close, and there’s this crater out in Arizona. It’s only 50,000 years old. Whatever came down there was only about 30 feet across, and everything within 800 miles died instantly when that thing came down.”
