A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn from doing ritual and taking ayahuasca [a common tropical forest hallucinogen] is the key to understanding the native… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share
Certainly in terms of technology, it's made a tremendous impact, but medicine is still within the realm of what we might call "objective" science.… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we're on in conjunction with the logical rigor of… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share
To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way. — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share
When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner" person who… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Chemistry comes about through the transformation of earth, air, fire and water. All chemistry is just movement within those things, and so we experience the joys and the sorrows of hot and cold, and dry and moist, because of these chemical transformations. In a similar way, we create and experience a world of time, space, motion and energy, through our… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share
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