Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

Halloween creatures both friendly & gruesome peered out of the rustling leaves.

Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.

A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

Anne Romaine collected her own parallel archive to [Alex] Haley.

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

Barack Obama and the Democrat Party convince people that America's best days are over.

Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.