Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

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

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