Part 1 Quote 7
“The religion you are born with frequently becomes more important as you see the universality of truth. Once you learn to go beyond the negative experiences you had as a child, you return to your roots with new eyes.”
Part 1 Quote 6
“Psilocybin turned my world completely upside down. For the first time in my life, I saw myself from outside myself. Who I thought I was—a son, a professor, a psychologist—was not who I actually was…. As I see it, the real change that came from psychedelics was opening people to their inner nature, to their soul.”
Part 1 Quote 5
“For the whole first part of my life, I never saw myself as a soul. I thought of myself as a body, an intellect, an emotional being, with my roles as son, brother, student, psychologist, pilot, cello player, lover, psychedelic adventurer, on and on…. My Richard Alpert persona—with my material trappings, my desire to both achieve and rebel—was the optimum experiential setting for all my karma to play out.”
Part 1 Quote 4
“Taking birth in a family, entering with the innocence of infancy into an existential situation of parents and siblings, is a marvelous recipe for karmic stew, for cooking a soul. All the subtle permutations of relationship and personality, prosperity and poverty, ease and difficulty, joy and sorrow, success and failure, are karmic stew ingredients.”
Part 1 Quote 3
“Ego and soul are a balance, as are power and love.”
Part 1 Quote 2
“If you want to see how you are doing on your spiritual path, go spend a week with your parents.”
Part 1 Quote 1
“I entered this life right after the Great Depression, and I saw in World War II what happened when people wanted power over others. The evolution of my soul took place concurrently with a spiritual awakening in the seventies, a call to service in the eighties, a hunger for dignity in the nineties. This was the stage set for this incarnation.”
Part 2 Quote 6 TOP
“It was the summer of 1967, and the Six Day War between Israel and its neighbors had just taken place—not the most auspicious time for two Jewish guys to drive through the Middle East. But I was buoyant. I was ready. ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ had just been released. From across America, some 150,000 young people were about to descend on San Francisco for the Summer of Love. This would be the summer of love for me too—just in an entirely different way.”
Part 2 Quote 5
“Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God.”
Part 2 Quote 4
“The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. If our attachment is to the thinking mind, it dies with the brain and the body. I am interested in what is beyond the thinking mind, leaving behind the thoughts of the ego, allowing the essence of our deeper being to shine forth. The soul is infinite, eternal, beyond space and time.”