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.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

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.

LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

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

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.