- Stanislav Grof: It is absolutely clear to me that consciousness is not possibly the product of the brain. It exists, or can exist, independently of the body. And that it's at least an equal partner of the super-ordinary world of matter.
- Stanislav Grof: Jung had it right that we should live part of our life internally. We should do deep self-exploration, which also means transformation. And then combine, somehow in our every day life, the deep knowledge and wisdom that could come from these states.
- Ralph Metzner: People who have power want to keep power. People who have wealth want to keep wealth. That's the primary motivation. Capitalism, what's called neo-elite model, is a dysfunctional model. It is not life sustainable. It does not support all of life. Half of the population on the planet is living under the poverty level. A billion people are permanently hungry.
- Stanislav Grof: So all these inauthentic tendencies to have more- need to double, triple the gross national product, something that guarantees good living standards- is a fallacy. Countries that achieved that- achieved high levels of economic standard- don't necessarily benefit from that emotionally. Actually, there's more violence, more suicide, and more alcoholism, addiction, divorce and so on. There's disconnection, direct disconnection, between economic achievement and a sense of well-being.
- Ralph Metzner: We are living in a very interesting time. Civilization that we call Western- techno-western civilization- is simultaneously becoming global and collapsing.
- Marilyn Schlitz: We have a way of valuing the rational aspects of our intellect and subordinating, and actually eradicating, these kinds of experiences like intuition and direct knowing from children.
- Marilyn Schlitz: How do we collectively dream? And how do we begin to co-create a better dream for the future of humanity? I think that's our challenge and opportunity as we live at this time of convergence, where there's so many world views and belief systems- ways of engaging reality.
- David S. Eindl-Ra: Obviously, Americans are least of any people in the world afraid of drugs, because there's a drugstore on every corner. So if they are so afraid of mind-expanding drugs, obviously it's the mind-expansion that they are afraid of. And we are made afraid of mind-expansion by the people who have a vested interest in our minds being quite narrow.
- John Markoff: I really struggle to understand what the relationship is between the use of psychedelic drugs by a small community of people during the sixties and the development of computer technology. I'm still uncomfortable by saying one led to the other. It's clear to me, however, that both emerged at the same time and there were aspects of each that resonated.