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Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.
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The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
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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.
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The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
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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.
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In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
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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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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.
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I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
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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.
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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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Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death.
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Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
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Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
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The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
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