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.

We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.

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

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

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

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