Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
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.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
