I hope this book will help you recognize your miracles and feel comfortable sharing them-even with your psychiatrist. During the 1960s much experimentation was going on with hallucinogenic drugs. Some researchers wanted to see how LSD would affect Indian yogis. When the yogis took LSD, an astonishing thing happened. Nothing at all happened.
Yogis have the same brains as everyone else, the same central nervous system.
Perhaps spiritual discipline produces more than lower metabolic rates and deep relaxation-more than physical or bodily effects. Eastern religion teaches that there is-that the mind is not reality, that the mind helps obstruct reality. But the mind can also be used to lead us to the heights, to reach God. The mind can even be used to go beyond itself. That is the ultimate paradox.