Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

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.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.