Techniques of Discovery

Ram Dass reflects on his stroke, choosing to identify with his soul rather than his ego, highlighting the soul's eternal nature.

"I do believe we live mostly . . . in the web of words. And learning which words control us and how to take control over the words. The whole area of neuro-semantics and neuro-linguistics, these seem to me the most vital things to study."

"Leary said that in order to give this experience to people you have to have had it first. So we tried it out. From that point I realized that my mind was completely conditioned; it was completely automatic. And that I could change that."

"Nicola Tesla talked about vacuum energy, zero point energy, the energy of nothing. People laughed at Tesla; now we think the universe is driven by dark energy."

"The term, the third eye, comes from the Tibetan, but it has its counterpart, all of which target an organ of perception capable of seeing things which our ocular eyes cannot take in."

"Separation is an illusion. Our consciousness transcends space and time. Our awareness is able to experience what is in the region where we are, what is in the region beyond where we are physically, and indeed into the future and the past."