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

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

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.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.