Chapter 25- How Consciousness Creates The Material Universe Dr. Amit Goswami--Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon and author of The Self-Aware Universe--How Consciousness Creates the Material Universe. The challenge of the next Millennium will be to develop an adequate scientific understanding of consciousness itself... Although there are limitations in our scientific knowledge of consciousness at this present time, the door is always open to directly experiencing this universal consciousness for ourselves. --Dr. Amit Goswami Chapter 26- Religion And The Frontiers Of Science Dr. Charles Tart--Professor of Psychology, pioneer researcher, and author of many books, including Altered States of Consciousness. There is hard evidence from over a thousand scientific experiments which supports the view that there is something more than the materialistic model of the universe. This is important for every educated person to know, especially scientists. --Dr. Charles Tart Chapter 27- Evidence For The Spiritual Reality Behind Near-Death Experiences Dr. Kenneth Ring--Psychologist, pioneering near-death researcher and author of many books, including Lessons from the Light. In the future, I believe that the implications of NDE research--and the message of hope embedded in the NDE itself--will be widely accepted by our society...Not only will people continue to undergo NDEs, but more importantly, more people will be pursuing near-death-like experiences through meditation and other spiritual practices. More of us will then come to know that it is only our ego's delusion about what is real that keeps us from experiencing the Light in this very moment, for the Light is the essence of what we ourselves are. Our challenge is to realize this and act on it before we die. --Dr. Kenneth Ring Chapter 28- Quantum Physics And The Soul Dr. Fred Alan Wolf--Quantum physicist, speaker and author of many books, including The Spiritual Universe: How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul. At the time of death, or during a near-death experience, it may very well be that the soul transitions from the material world--which operates at speeds less than the speed of light--to a world that operates faster than light speed, the so-called "super-luminal" spiritual world. In that transfer, a tunneling effect may take place in much the same way that it appears to take place in what astro-physicists call a "black hole." --Dr. Fred Alan Wolf Chapter 29- Is There Life After Death?--Science And The Survival Hypothesis Dr. Willis Harman--Stanford Professor Emeritus, the late President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science. Most scientists would claim that there is no satisfactory scientific evidence to support the hypothesis of the continuation of personhood through the transition called death...It is essential to recognize that science in its present form is not in a position to deny the possibility. --Dr. Willis Harman Chapter 30- Theta Consciousness: Survival Research With The Living Dr. Michael Grosso--Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, lecturer and author of many books, including The Final Choice. The argument, as it goes, is: If a conscious subject can separate from the body before death, it may be able to maintain that separation after--and thus survive--death. --Dr. Michael Grosso