Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.