An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

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

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

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.

LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

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

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