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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.”

Quote by Fred Alan Wolf

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Fred Alan Wolf is a renowned physicist, born on December 3, 1934. He is known for his in-depth research in quantum physics, particularly his exploration of the relationship between quantum mechanics and consciousness. Professor Wolf has made significant contributions to the popularization of scientific knowledge through his extensive writings. more

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“You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.”

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“The most common way people could do time-travel would be a form of meditation in which you don't get caught up in your thoughts and don't make patterns of logical consequences follow as a result of your thinking process. It's very hard for most of us to do that if we think about it. But if you start to watch the process by which things come into being, and you begin to witness from the point of view of watching the words form, then you're beginning to move into the non-temporal mindset, or that which is free of time.”

“People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they're able to time travel.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

“Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the logical, rational way of looking at things, the so-called scientific explanation, which often leaves a lot lacking and doesn't really fulfill understanding the experience at all.”

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“Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.”

Mind Would Be Senses Data

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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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“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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