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" 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. "
Stanislav Grof
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" When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. "
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" Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. "
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" Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. "
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" 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. "
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" The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. "
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" Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. "
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" For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. "
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