 Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. |
| 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. |
| When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. |
| 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. |
| I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. |
| I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in psychedelics than in psychoanalysis. |
| There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. |
| There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. |
| 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. |
| It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. |
| Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. |
| Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death. |
