40 Meet the Author

Hi, I’m MJ and I wrote this chapter during my fourth year at The Ohio State University. I felt drawn to the topic when we touched on it in my Religion and Environmental Values class, as the stories people recalled, with evidence supporting it, completely changed my understanding of the laws of nature and the abilities of the human consciousness. It also intrigued me to research something that included so many subjects that are arguably considered taboo to discuss in Western culture such as death, afterlife, spirituality, and the transcendent nature of the psyche.