"The ultimate journey describes ancient and aboriginal ritual and spiritual practices that help us understand the experience of death, develop effective ways of making dying easier, and integrate it as a meaningful part of life. This book also summarizes modern studies that shed new light on a variety of phenomena related to death and dying, including psycho-spiritual death and rebirth, near-death experiences and new expanded cartography of the psyche that has merged from Grof's fifty years of research of psychedelic therapy, holotropic breathwork, and spontaneous psychospiritual crises"--p. 3 of cover.