Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

so you want something complex and contradictory? I could stay here talking to you all day about how the world works when in reality I dont need too.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

New Zealand is a place where you can get well.

She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.