The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiNobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiI think that the Apocalypse is going to be in this new way of thinking. Somewhere between now and 2020, there has got to be a break though. Not just in science, we've done that, but a breakthrough in the human mind.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiI don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiSound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.
Dolores Ashcroft-NowickiMagic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki