Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

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

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

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

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

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