Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
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.
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.
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.
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
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.
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.
