There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.

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

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

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

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.