I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were the only way I could have cracked open my own spirit in a way.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness.

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

Aurora looked into the mirror and smiled. She was pretty. She was a royal princess. There was about to be a ball. These were things she could, once in a while, allow herself to be happy about.

With or without money, the work must be done.

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

Until you have hunted men, you haven’t hunted yet.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.