For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.

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

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.

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