“Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.”
“The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.”
“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
“Mysticism conceives something transcending experience; religion seeks glimpses of a better good or a worse evil than experience can give. Reincarnation need only extend experiences in the sense of repeating them.”
“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”
“If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.”