Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

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.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

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

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.