Psychedelic

The Fourth Turning (aka Strauss-Howe generational theory):

The idea that history is not linear but helical, because civilization has its own seasons

You know, the theory of evolution is essentially a theory which is an effort to account for the large numbers of diverse plants and animals on the planet. Darwin, in his diaries, referred to what he was doing as searching for a solution to the species problem. It was not thought to have anything to do with sociology or geology, but now I think we... See more

Teach a person to meditate, pray, chant, or do yoga, and there is no guarantee that anything will happen. Depending upon his aptitude or interest, the only reward for his efforts may be boredom and a sore back. If, however, a person ingests 100 micrograms of LSD, what happens next will depend on a variety of factors, but there is no question that

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The universe is a finite thing. It burst into existence X billion years ago. Where are you going to say the laws of nature were before the universe existed. And don’t forget: we’re not only talking about laws of physics. That’s one thing. What about the laws of gene segregation? Where were they before biology existed? What kind of a question is... See more

This is the big picture. Yes, it’s coming; the monkeys are going to the stars, better smoothly or not so smoothly. It’s not clear, but the monkeys are going to the stars and they’re going to take everyone with them. It can be a relatively smooth birth with no tearing and no bleeding, and everything just moving right along, or it can be wholly

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A paradigm touches everything, and it begins very deeply, but I think that my—you know, fractal mathematics, chaos theory, complexity theory, my own stuff with the timewave—all of this is going to, in a sense, erase much of the mystery about the future. That the future is ( in a freedom and law system) necessarily unknowable, because if you knew... See more

every technology carries utterly unpredictable consequences. Nobody dreamed that the automobile would create a sexual revolution because it’s a rolling bedroom. Nobody dreamed that the automobile would destroy the extended family, that people would move hundreds and hundreds of miles from [each other]. The automobile created the suburb. McLuhan, on... See more