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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.