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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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The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.
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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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In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
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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.
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There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
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There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying.
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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.
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Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
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It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
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It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.
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Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
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As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.
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The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
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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.
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