Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

Love is a context, not a behavior.

Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice.