Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

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.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

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.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

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.