The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I have had experiences, or brief glimpses, of being able to see the future and then come back into time, and then go into extraordinary realms of the past.

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

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 think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding you back, so to speak, and I think there is an unconscious body image that may be responsible for the unhealing that's taking place.

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our feelings, we experience energy, and from our intuitions and our feelings, we experience motion.

You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.