32 Quotes by Fred Alan Wolf

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

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.”

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.