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

We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.

All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection.

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

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

It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal