When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

It's very frustrating if you've never had an experience and somebody comes up to you and says, "I've just been on a flying saucer." Your tendency is to think, "Oh, this guy must be wacko, nuts, having an hallucination. None of that can be true because none of that has ever happened to me."

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

Medicine could have pretty far-reaching effects once we begin to look at the kinds of things that people can do to induce transformation in their thinking, their sensing, their intuiting and their feelings - and whether there's some power there that can be unleashed that would cause blockages that were primarily put in place through thought to be let go of.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.