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

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'.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.