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" If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. "

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

" I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. "

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

" Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. "

" A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. "

" 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. "

" I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. "

" At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. "

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

" The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. "

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

" The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. "

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

" As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. "

" I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. "

" Walt Disney was my great hero. "

" There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. "

" The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. "

" Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. "

" Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. "

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

" I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. "

" 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 are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. "

" I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in. "

" 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. "

" Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "