I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not see our families, not just to watch the evening news and the inane comedies designed to pacify the multitudes, but rather to explore ourselves.

Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.