When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost. Fred Alan Wolf More Quotes by Fred Alan Wolf More Quotes From Fred Alan Wolf That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished. Fred Alan Wolf attempting ifs ideas All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection. Fred Alan Wolf ifs perfection knows Every book I write is filled with ideas to open people's minds. And many of my books are intended for the lay mind, for people who have no idea about what's going on in quantum physics. They are meant to get big ideas across in the simplest way so young people can start to wrestle with these ideas. Fred Alan Wolf writing book people When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I've understood, it seems to give people a lift - an unshackling or freeing. Fred Alan Wolf views people ideas The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I have had experiences, or brief glimpses, of being able to see the future and then come back into time, and then go into extraordinary realms of the past. Fred Alan Wolf glimpse mystical-experiences past You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go. Fred Alan Wolf creating letting-go might We all get out, maybe for longer than we wish, because we all pass this mortal coil more or less and so we certainly get a chance to experience it again, and we've experienced it before we were born. So it's more or less our natural place of being, unless you believe that the only time you're conscious is when you're alive. Fred Alan Wolf alive wish believe Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing. Fred Alan Wolf data would-be mind 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 consciousness and perception of the world with the Peruvian shamans that you wouldn't get unless you had been with them, but every shamanic tradition, including the Native American tradition of medicine and cleansing ritual, like the Sun Dance or the sweat lodge. Fred Alan Wolf ayahuasca sweat native-american 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 understanding theoretical physics, which makes me kind of a rare bird, because usually you're one or the other. Fred Alan Wolf theoretical-physics bird thinking It's very frustrating if you've never had an experience and somebody comes up to you and says, "I've just been on a flying saucer." Your tendency is to think, "Oh, this guy must be wacko, nuts, having an hallucination. None of that can be true because none of that has ever happened to me." Fred Alan Wolf guy nuts thinking
