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"The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence."
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"The important thing is not to survive, but to live."

"Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet."

"Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?"

"Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference."

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
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"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."


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


"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."


"Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs."


"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."


"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."


"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness."


"A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know."


"In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail."
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