In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

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Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.