Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

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

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.