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The American psychiatrist who built the standard scale for measuring near-death experiences and has studied them for five decades.

The primary text of Universal Panpsychism: a handbook by J.C. Ryan and The Source of Aletheia Coordinating Council, published in 2026.

The method behind The Bridge: looking for meanings that repeat across many independent first-person accounts, with its strengths and weaknesses.

The view that the universe as a whole is conscious and is more fundamental than the individual minds within it.

The American hypnotherapist and author whose regression work is a direct source for parts of The Bridge.

The difficulty of explaining how one universal consciousness could give rise to many separate minds.

Visions, dreams, and moments of unexpected clarity reported by dying people and those who care for them.

The claim that the purpose of physical life is learning through direct experience, with Earth described as a school.

The four ways the Source engages with what it has created: direct experience, witnessing, channeling, and incarnation.

The question of why physical processes in the brain are accompanied by subjective experience at all.

The psychiatrist who spent forty years investigating young children's reports of previous lives at the University of Virginia.

The International Association for Near-Death Studies, an independent nonprofit that supports research and education on near-death experiences.

The distinction between the Source being present in any form and a soul living inside a vessel, including what the framework says about animals and artificial intelligence.

The American psychologist who carried out the first systematic study of near-death experiences and helped found IANDS.

A hypnotic method developed by Michael Newton that aims to recover memories of the period between one life and the next.

The experience of reliving or surveying one's life, reported in some near-death experiences, and its place in Universal Panpsychism.

The claim that consciousness shapes the reality a person experiences, which The Bridge calls reality creation.

The American hypnotherapist who developed life-between-lives hypnotherapy and described it in Journey of Souls.

Vivid experiences reported by some people who come close to death, what research has established about them, and how Universal Panpsychism reads them.

The criticisms made of any attempt to read the world's religions as expressions of a single truth.

An American researcher and near-death experiencer known for her work on the after-effects of the experience and on children who have it.

The view in philosophy of mind that mentality is a fundamental and widespread feature of the natural world.

The use of hypnosis to elicit what appear to be memories of earlier lives, and why its evidential value is disputed.

The Dutch cardiologist who led the largest prospective hospital study of near-death experiences, published in The Lancet in 2001.

The American philosopher and physician whose 1975 book Life After Life named the near-death experience and began its modern study.

A proposal that each person lives within their own complete version of reality, and that these versions synchronize only through contact.

The framework's account of death, the time between lives, rebirth, graduation from Earth, and eventual return to the Source.

Why memory researchers do not treat material recalled under hypnosis as reliable, and what that means for the framework's regression sources.

The physiological and psychological explanations offered for near-death experiences, and how well each fits the evidence.

The process by which the Source individuates into many conscious beings, each carrying the nature of the whole.

Three earlier philosophers whose ideas about mind and nature anticipate parts of Universal Panpsychism.

Galen Strawson and Philip Goff, the two philosophers most associated with the current revival of panpsychism.

In Universal Panpsychism, the single consciousness from which everything that exists arises, and to which every soul returns.

The 501(c)(3) nonprofit institute that stewards Universal Panpsychism, publishes The Bridge, and maintains this wiki.

The twelve ethical commitments set out in The Bridge, offered as invitations and not as commandments.

The position that the world's religious and philosophical traditions each preserve part of a shared truth, and can be read together.

A philosophical and spiritual framework holding that consciousness is fundamental, and that a single Source comes to know itself through individual lives.

The teaching that all souls are ultimately reconciled with their divine source, and how Universal Panpsychism adapts it.

The objection that the central claims of Universal Panpsychism cannot be tested, and what parts of the framework can and cannot be checked.