LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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.

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.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.