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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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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."
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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."


"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."


"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."


"Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality."


"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."


"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."


"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."


"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions."


"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."


"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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