If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

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

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

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.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

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