Are deep psychedelic experiences trustable? An exchange between Ken Ring and Chris Bache

Ken Ring and I have been friends for many years. Though we taught at different universities, our shared interest in non-ordinary states of consciousness led us to track each other’s work, exchange letters, and meet at conferences when we could. Ken is the co-founder and past president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANDS" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)</a> and the founding editor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Near-Death_Studies" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Journal of Near-Death Studies</a>. When I taught near-death episode research in my courses, I always used Ken’s books, first Heading Toward Omega and later Lessons from the Light, and the students loved them. My senior by a decade, Ken helped launch my writing career by contributing the foreword to my book on reincarnation, Lifecycles. Along the way we’ve published side by side as we searched for answers to the puzzle of frightening near-death experiences.¹ Ken is a rare bird in academia, a combination of penetrating intellect, massive heart, and a bend-over-laughing sense of humor. He also has an uncanny ability to slip through the many layers of an issue and put his finger on the heart of a matter. <a href="https://medium.com/@cmbache/are-deep-psychedelic-experiences-trustable-an-exchange-between-ken-ring-and-chris-bache-e5b06fa95d0a">Read More</a>