2 Quotes by Richard Ireland

In order for the psychic capacity to work, you must be able to still the interfering thoughts of your conscious mind and turn inwardly. It is very important for you to be able to let go of your restless thoughts, your hopes, dreams, desires, and frustrations. Ideally, when the mind is completely stilled, you should be in such an objective, passive state of mind that you are no longer even conscious that you have a body - almost a prayerful attitude.

The state of waking sleep, therefore, is a condition in which you unconsciously deprive yourself of the expansive vistas of sensory experience. Your sensory receptors become prematurely, but not irrevocably, dull simply because you aren't stimulating them enough.