... , has been an integral part of the human psyche since the emergence of the modern man (Buckman 31). There is evidence that even Homo sapiens from the Paleolithic era (ca. 120,000 BC - 8,000BC) believed in a spiritual world. These archaic human beings engaged in mortuary practices similar to modern ones, burying their dead in sleeping positions and surrounding them with ... they float above their body and enter a soothing radiant light. Furthermore, these people often report seeing friends and loved ones. Similar experiences are described in both the Egyptian funerary texts and Book of the...

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