I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.