I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

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.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

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

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.