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The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

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The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

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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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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.

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

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I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

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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.

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