The place where knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.
FRED ALAN WOLFTo understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn’t anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.
More Fred Alan Wolf Quotes
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What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: “as above, so below, as within, so without.”
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That’s sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
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The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
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What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal
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We need all three senses of time – a sense of the future, a sense of the present, and a sense of the past – at all times to understand or experience what’s happening right now. It’s constantly unfolding that way.
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Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.
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The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That’s really what new alchemy’s all about.
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I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.
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The shamanic realm is to get you out of the word set. For skeptics, that’s impossible, and they just can’t see that and it just makes no sense.
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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 that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.
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I want to explain the new alchemy [in the “From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time”], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.
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Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.
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Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.
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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.
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Dreams – Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.
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