Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

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

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

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