According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

I am not afraid of anything, even death.

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.