“The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.”
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The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
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.