I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great ….

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline….

Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce ….

the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or validity is n….

My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile, I have a soul. And my soul ca….

When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the time when the ….

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the pro….

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere..

...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and ….

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not de….

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be..

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it..

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry..

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them..

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action..

I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren….

Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of rig….

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were b….

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward..

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be..

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'..