Pull quotes… from High Frontiers issue #3 for you to chew over. (High Frontiers was the predecessor to MONDO 2000.)
HF: What’s it like being God? Rosalie Blue: It’s like Doonesbury suddenly getting up off the paper and seeing that he’s always been flat.
They had to have a new domestic enemy and, of course, drugs are the perfect scapegoat. People that use drugs tend to be dissident. Timothy Leary
…they were working on a combination L-dopa/parlodel on Parkinson’s patients in their 70s and 80s. The old ladies and old men started fucking like fiends. Durk Pearson
The human brain is 50,000 years out of date. It evolved in a nontechnological world where the basic tasks were hunting, gathering, agriculture. Anonymous Unit
The machines produce immediate effects. I don’t think that they are as powerful and noticeable as the effects you might get from a chemical dose. Michael Hutchison
In the electronics field, when you put something out, you are protected only by your speed in putting the next thing out. Lee Felsenstein
Fringe scientists are interested in time travel, telepathy, psychokinesis, tantric sex, hypnosis, psychedelic drugs, wild card models of mind, God and universe Nick Herbert
You turn on the ecstasy channel. Turn on the metaphysical revelation channel. Stefan G.
the evolution of intelligent systems, the interplay of the organic and post-organic — the incorporation of a lot of non-flesh, non-carbon implants and explants and fusions. F.M. Esfandiary
“You know, Lisa. I’ve heard Fidel likes pretty blondes. I wonder how he’d react to a good aphrodisiac?” Nan C. Druid
The left gave America over to the far right by embracing a philosophy of entropy… the “era of limitations”; Muddling Towards Frugality; Small Is Beautiful. R.U. Sirius
I can see an orderly evolutionary progress that is mutually interdependent, harmonious, interactive. Michael Nesmith
With any drug, it’s good to experiment with it rather than depend on it Do it 2 or 3 or 4 times and then get rid of it. Jello Biafra
In the fifth “chant,”Lautreamont refers explicitly to the spider’s magnetic spell over his cerebro-spinal nervous system and refers to this spider as a tarantula. Queen Mu
Psychedelics — it’s like going out to the frontier if you want to romanticize it. It’s like sticking your hand in the incinerator if you don’t. Paul Kantner
As a dominatrix, I prefer to control my material. Diamanda Galas
I’ve already passed Dylan. Dylan and all the musicians in the world will all come to me in the end. Sky Saxon
I was given betel nut, and I got stoned and danced all day around these skulls and bones with the natives. Tom Robbins
Inscrutable as an aztec mummy in a brown 1940’s suit and porkpie hat, Burroughs sits off to one side of the speakers’ table. Mary Mazocco
Certain biologic mutations would definitely be necessary in order to inhabit space… a skeleton… it’s an encumbrance where weight is an essential factor. William S. Burroughs
All over the world, in the evolution of human consciousness, there is a reemergence of the immanence of the feminine principle. Luisah Tiesh
I’m glad I live now. It’s like living in Heaven and Hell simultaneously. It’s the cloud of total unknowing. Joan Halifax
Can you tell me what the master control program is? It’s the current consensus reality… which doesn’t believe in users. And who are the users? John Lilly
Now the government aims at banning states of consciousness rather than controlled substances. Peter Stafford & Bruce Eisner
Some people take drugs and get apparently nothing out of it. NOTHING! I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THAT HAPPENS TO THEM! Jeremy Tarcher
Why is embodiment such a temporary, painful and sloppy sort of solution? Gracie
What one perceives under the influence of tryptamine hallucinogens is the fractal nature of the self. Terence McKenna