All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it.

Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.

If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

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...

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.

A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.