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

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

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

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.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

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