xiii, pages 10-360, [40] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
The preface is an interview with Peter Gasser, by David Jay Brown.
Shamanism: the archaic techniques of ecstasy --; Rites of passage: death and rebirth in ritual transformation --; Ancient mysteries of death and rebirth --; Death and rebirth in the great religions of the world --; The posthumous journey of the soul --; The Books of the Dead: manuals for living and dying --; Cultural perspectives on the nature of reality and consciousness --; Dimensions of consciousness: new cartography of the human psyche --; Consciousness on the threshold of death --; The mystery of karma and reincarnation --; Messages and visits from the beyond --; History of psychedelic therapy with the dying --; The Spring Grove program --; Psychedelic case histories --; Psychedelic metamorphosis of dying --; Psyche and Thanatos: death in western psychology and society --; Appendix: Aldous Huxley's conscious approach to death.
Consciousness and the mystery of death
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Death -- Religious aspects.
Near-death experiences.
BF789
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D4
S736
2010
Stanislav Grof; [foreword by Huston Smith; preface by David Jay Brown & Peter Gasser].