In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.

There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings is something that is eternal.

In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.