The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

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

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.