19 Quotes by Win Wenger

one teenage girl who, during a lucid dream, “entered the body” of a boy whose attention she had been soliciting in vain. Once inside her love object’s “body,” she began to see things from his point of view.“I understood why he had been so reserved with me,” she reported, “and I realized that he would never return my feelings.” As a result, the girl was able to end a fruitless and disheartening infatuation.

Each night before falling asleep, Hill would close his eyes and imagine himself to be in the company of nine “invisible counselors” modeled after his nine greatest heroes: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Luther Burbank, Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie.

Next identify the key trigger words, that is, words that jump out at you as you scan the book. The author uses them again and again because they represent key facets of the book’s theme. In The Einstein Factor, such terms as “Image Streaming,” “Squelcher,” and “Feedback Loop” will have jumped out at you. Find out precisely what the trigger words mean, and you will understand the book.

The need to express ourselves at all costs is hard-wired into our brains as deeply as our drive for food or sex.

Whatever explanation you prefer, men and women have for thousands of years been sharing their bodies with other beings, real or imagined. There is overwhelming documentation that, while engaged in such trances, people exhibit skills, talents, knowledge, and even physical strength and dexterity unavailable to them in their normal lives.

they think the image must remain in their conscious view the whole time they’re describing it. Not so. Even if the image flickers for a second and disappears, you can still keep describing it from memory, just as you described the Taj Mahal.

Pause before making your next big decision. Look around and notice the slight irregularities of the ceiling, the texture of brick underfoot, the feel of your knee bending and straightening, and the slight shifts of sensation in your shoulders, stomach, neck, and face. You can’t really explain why, but when you widen your neurological contact with the world in this way you feel stronger, wiser, and more creative—and you choose more wisely.

it is psychologically impossible to describe a person or object from memory without first forming a mental image of it

those tribes whose infants creep and crawl tend to have more complex societies, higher technology, and some form of written language. Most tribes that restrict their infants from crawling have no writing of their own and can be taught to read only with great difficulty.