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

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

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

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

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.