“Human consciousness is just a way for plants to move plant and bacterial genes around. But we have apparently forgotten this and take ourselves to be the center of planetary telos.”— Richard M. Doyle, amazon.comTagged: The Secret Lives of Plants, Plant Movemenet
“We are fleshbots in love with an inflatable ego doll: ourselves.”— Richard M. Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Ego, Fleshbots, Fleshware
“My journeys since have often repeated this message: human consciousness, from this perspective, is just a way for plants to move plant and bacterial genes around, but we have apparently forgotten this and take ourselves to be the center of planetary telos.”— Richard M. Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Consciousness, Psychedelics
“If we recognize the plant as an autonomous power which enters in order to put roots and flowers in us, then we distance ourselves by several degrees from the skewed perspective which imagines that spirit (Geist) is the monopoly of human beings and doesn't exist outside of them. A new world-picture h…”— Ernst Jünger, amazon.comTagged: Spirit, The Secret Lives of Plants
“The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure. That's the honest position, given that you are some kind of a talking monkey, some kind of a primate, some kind of creature, on a planet, in an animal body, incarnate in a time and space. In the face of that, life without closure is the…”— Terence McKenna, amazon.comTagged: Openness
“Hailed by the whole, one can become healed through ecodelic practice precisely because the subject turns back on who they thought they were, becoming aware of the existence of a whole, a system in which everything 'really is' connected—the noösphere. Such a vision can be discouraging and even fright…”— Richard M. Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Drugs, Ego Loss, Identity, Noösphere