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.
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.
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
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.
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.