Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 1, 1931
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence..
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….
The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restr….
Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of realit….
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human be….
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival..
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….
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridg….
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness..
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 doe….
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry..
I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in..
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment..
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself..
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type..
The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human perso….
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution..
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and ….
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying a….
Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the co….
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on b….