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.

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

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.