Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

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

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

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

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.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.