“Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”

“Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.”

“The Ohlones seem to have lived at a time and in a spiritual place before the imagination was cast away and isolated from “mainstream” consciousness. Since dreams were real, when an animal-god appeared in the hollows of the dream mind, it was not mere illusion: it was divine revelation.”

“When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.”

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

“Now they were regaining consciousness– were being treated to a cruel and lovely illusion.”