I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.

At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.