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Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
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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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There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
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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.
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The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
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The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
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Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
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It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.
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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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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.
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Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
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An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
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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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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.
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