It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas this Oriental civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Light shines in darkness because what else could it shine in?

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. What we really are is, first of all, the whole of our body. And a…

Another theme of the Wake that helps in the understanding of the paradoxical shift from cliche to archetype is 'pastimes are past times'. The dominant technolo…

The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, cultur…

'I want the program to be very open and develop in style as time goes on. But I am also interested in the positive aspects of Asian family life and other Asian…