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.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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.

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.

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