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.

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

We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.

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

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.