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

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

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.

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.

It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.

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