Latest Fred Alan Wolf Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Book, Writing, People

• 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

  Letting Go, Creating, Might

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• I think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding you back, so to speak, and I think there is an unconscious body image that may be responsible for the unhealing that's taking place.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Healing, Thinking, Body

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• 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. It's still part of the objective way of looking at the world.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Technology, Impact, Medicine

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• Medicine could have pretty far-reaching effects once we begin to look at the kinds of things that people can do to induce transformation in their thinking, their sensing, their intuiting and their feelings - and whether there's some power there that can be unleashed that would cause blockages that were primarily put in place through thought to be let go of.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Letting Go, Thinking, Medicine

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• Illness is something out of balance, rather than something within balance. It's been something that is created and it's been created for a purpose and a reason, and that purpose or reason may not be obvious to the person that has the disease. Nevertheless, there is something going on and it's not always easy to find that out.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Balance, Purpose, May

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• When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner" person who was controlling what was going on in the life of the "outer" person, who thinks he's in control of his life. That inner person has a vested interest in keeping the person from getting well, so the healing doesn't take place.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Get Well, Healing, Thinking

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• 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

  Thinking, Nuts, Guy

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• I describe the variety of different kinds of experiences I had, from seeing into the future to being inside the body of a bird and feeling the bird consciousness, to being in a plane of existence with beings that do not exist on this planet at all. And I described my experiences to shamans who started to laugh, saying, "Oh, we know those guys."

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  Laughing, Guy, Bird

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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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  Understanding, Trying, Lost

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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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  Impossible, Skeptic, Realms

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

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Data, Mind, Would Be

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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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Ideas, Attempting, Ifs

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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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Native American, Ayahuasca, Sweat

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• 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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  People, Understanding, Trying

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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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Past, Mystical Experiences, Glimpse

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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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Believe, Wish, Alive

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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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Moving, Thinking, Views

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• 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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  People, Creative, Able

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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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Yoga, Able, Time Travel

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• It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Spiritual, Yoga, Reading

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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.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Past, People, Able

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• We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Giving, Remembrance, Together

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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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  Past, Three, Needs

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• There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Moving, Thinking, Ability

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