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

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

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

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

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.