The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?