Death is the second darkness
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"Even if there is no afterlife, the moment you die, you are unaware you are dead. But the moment before, you are alive. In this way, life and death never meet. I am not afraid of death because life and death never meet. Just as you cannot remember the exact moment you fall asleep. I will only know life. YOU will know my death. That's your problem." - Norm MacDonald
I love Norm and miss him being here.
Thanks for this great quote of his.
Norm was a sharp dude. Never heard it put like that. Great quote.
Norm said that? Wow, very profound in my opinion.
What if life and death do meet ?? The same way we are unaware when we die could possibly be the same way we are unaware when we become conscious in the womb or when we are conceived. Possibility of reincarnation ??
When you die, you become an old chunk of coal.
I held my wife's sweet hand as she passed. She got sick young fought for years it nearly broke me she was so strong . I miss her I'm not scared of death though her spirit lives on and we will always be joined, love is very powerful . Choose Love !!!! It's the best thing to be remembered by !
Sheesh. I'm sorry.
My condolences. You'll see her again.
RIP.
@@thulsadoom544 - wth do you know about it? You ever die? See the afterlife or lack thereof and then return to this world? And if you had, why would you choose to destroy the beliefs of a grieving person who finds comfort in those beliefs?
Just being an A hole, huh?
Sharing your misery?
Do us all a favor. Keep your opinions and your misery to yourself.
And for the record, yes, there Is an afterlife and all our loved ones are there waiting.
I'd act accordingly if I were you.
@@thulsadoom544 we'll know when we get there. no sooner
rip to her ❤🙏
I am dying soon. I have fatal conditions, and I do worry about death. I believe in God, and I hope he believes in me. I pray for a life after death. To share a new life of peace without fear. I give myself to the Lord.
Quantum life. Quantum heaven.
@deanh1962 You still here ?? ❤
Are you still here?
Hello?
To everybody in this comment thread, Dean passed away on the 4th of December 2022.
Much love to him and my deepest condolences to his family.
🌻🌷🌺🌸🪻🌹
"We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing."
- Charles Bukowski -
I’d guess it’s because trivialities are the result of passion and care. If you are indifferent, nothing matters. It’s difficult to know where or how to draw the line between indifference, and obsessive passion.
@@ozmaphase2 Yes....All relative I guess!!
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."
-Charles Bukowski
Worm food...
Just walking around...
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Our time on earth is likened to a wisp of smoke.
I've had to many premonitions. We've been here before and we'll be here again.
I was told by a reiki master that I was something (i prefer not to say) in a past life. Several aspects of my current life and personality made so much sense to me after finding out. maybe we do carry traits of our former self or selves. Its humbling and helped me realize I need to grow and refine myself and to be compassionate.
On my 52nd Birthday I said " Only a few more years and I can get back to what I was doing before I was born. " Makes sense to me.
We emerged out of the first darkness. I think that means perhaps we can find a way to emerge out of the next darkness.
Yeah I agree, I think it is flawed thinking that people think it can happen only once, and this is it. Of course these topics are far beyond our understanding at this point to begin to even broach it.
Interesting thought, keeps one optimistic at least...
In an infinite amount of time, everything is possible. Time is also relative, so maybe the darkness between the light is only a blink.
Yes but if we re-emerge will we be our former selves? If not, then did our former selves re-emerge or to some degree did remain in the second darkness? All very kind of subjective and fractal.
@@justincase3108 Who/what is our true former self? Is the self that exists in the darkness the true self, or is this momentary material existence our true self?
“The night is young”
You’ll never truly know what someone, including yourself, is capable of or will do at times.
I never, I mean, I never thought I’d see a head without a body taking about death. Mind blowing honestly.
This was unexpected
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😂😂😂
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Does look like a floating head. Lol
Ive experienced the love and gratitude intensely on Ayahuasca. To this day I experience gratitude in my daily life.
Ayahuasca scares the hell out of me, I hope one day I can overcome that
Your pineal gland- or "3rd Eye", was activated.
The cold hard truth is we don't know if there's anything to be afraid of or not. Absolute certainty on the subject is impossible, unless you're a zealot.
Nothing to fear except betrayal.
I lived the 50 years as a Mormon; thinking that I knew the meaning of life and nature of death and after life. On my 60th birthday, after a rapid exit from religion and a few profound experiences with an entheogen, I got my first and only tattoo that simply states the 2 absolute truths from this podcast....."Life is Short....but I'm OK".
Where did you get the entheogen from and what type was it?
There is a way out of death. His name is Jesus Christ. He is the doorway my friends. He is eternal life. Trust in what He did for you on the cross and you will not taste death.
I agree
Seeing a ghost/the light at the age of 8 and never having ever hallucinated has completely removed my fear of death. I close my eyes when I go skating sometimes. I'm not suicidal, call it a trust in God/Universe.
i think i recorded one, I mean I did
Most people who say they're not afraid of death is extremely disingenuous, of course they are, Humans are creatures of habit and afraid of the unknown, people put themselves through pure suffering just to live one more day. Anyone who has witnessed someone suffer through an illness always say "at least they're not suffering anymore" after the battle is lost. In fact if people weren't really afraid of it, then we'd save a ton of money on healthcare, walk through any hospital and talk to the patients you quickly realize they're hanging on to a centimeter of hope in what is otherwise a bleak outcome, they'd rather be bedridden in a hospital bed, people can get used to almost any amount of suffering as long as they still here, I saw my poor Grandmother the other day living in assisted living facility, and her existence is just terrible. Sorry for the rant of negative words, I'm just being honest here.
There’s also the ppl who off themselves, so not everyone fears it. Some ppl who are just hanging on by a thread might not be scared, but a lot of times being close to death makes u realize how beautiful life is. Even when ur barely a functioning human
Refreshing honesty bro, schopenhauer would be impressed
@@jonny-dp2qr My cousin Jason killed himself in 2006. He didn't make it to 30. He believed a woman's betrayal made life not worth living anymore.
I think the opposite.
My wife betrayed me and now I want to live every day to the fullest.
I have seen this the same way as you. After some thought, I remembered, anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
So suffering makes people stronger and better, except when they die. Maybe it's just because we don't comprehend what happens after death.
I suspect that suffering in death is not the exception and it took is valuable. We just can't see past the veil to understand.
That is most definitely your perspective and quite understandable. However, to assume you know how others approach their death and their attitudes, or pronounce it disingenuous is not fair. It's probably more true to say that we pass through a multitude of emotions and come to terms with each of them before we reach our final conclusion. We don't all view life the same way either; some of us depend on religion, some of us view nature around us and notice we are part of it, and some of us deny and fight the concept of death to the very end. It is by far the most personal experience we will ever have. If you see it from the perspective of the people you love, that is awful by itself, but that is a separate experience. YOU choose how you wish to experience and understand death. You have to - it's inevitable.
Everything is impermanent so being present in the moment is a precious human experience. 🙏 where there is death, there is rebirth it's a cycle of life.
Beautifully put
As someone who has gone deep down the spiritual, psychedelic rabbit hole searching for answers… duality is everything and everything must have an opposite to exist at all. Life/death, light/dark, good/evil, love/hate etc… We live in heaven and hell simultaneously and life is a great gift but also great suffering which gives rise to an emptiness inside everyone that is always there, always trying to be filled with love, materialism, wealth, drugs, distractions. It also goes so deep that we are all one with the universe but as one it also implies we’re alone for eternity. Saying all this, if you want to experience death and glimpse your true self, it can be done… its called ego death but many dare not let that genie out of the bottle.
Pretty much, good luck on your path of self actualization/awareness and safe travels from a fellow psychonaut :) also idk about you but most recently I think I finally managed to what I guess? Is merging my conscious and subconscious minds together, emotions are soooo easy to see now, in myself and everyone else.
Ego death?
Do tell me what you know about it if you get a chance?
Peace
Speaking of opposites, if death is the opposite of life, then what is the opposite of birth?
John Donne…”It is not death I fear but it is dying.”
The greatest mercy nature gave man was to allow it to die.
Underrated 👍🏼
Yes 👍
Yes otherwise life is struggle and addiction are no guarantee of happiness
Alright Rustin Cohle
I loved Lex’s answer on the meaning of life. He seems like a great human being and I think he really is
Yes. Unlike the guest.
I love the little candle. That is so wonderful.
I’m not afraid of death I’m afraid of the unknown. No one knows what happens no one idk I believe your spirit lives on
"Death does not concern me, I am not frightened by it. What concerns me is eternity, and eternity is NOW." - Ayn Rand.
What are you doing with your now......?
Dying can be a long consuming proses making death painful and long and that’s the worst between being alive and succumbing to death and that’s where they do meat
What's the famous saying? We all die three time. The first death is when your body dies. The second death is when your body is buried or cremated. The third death is the last time your name is spoken.
What is death. Can you die to your arrogance, jealousy, greed, anger, anxiety, fears, depression, biases, lies, and so on.
If one can die to all of that before the body dies, then death is a great friend and the death of the body holds no fear.
Then life is an extraordinary thing where ones actions build the thing that does not die upon death of the body. Do you see this..
"the night is young" 😀
Wow . Love this clip as it has such a level of humanity and profundity intertwined. Great podcast guest
The curiosity of what happens to you when you die, dies when you die.
For how long do you think your comment will be relevant in this dying world?
The brain uses sensory input to define our experience so when you die, it's those limiters that get removed.
The deities you encounter in the Bardo are the archetypal bands that support your ego/archetypal self-axis.
As you pass through their dynamics, your sense of self unravels and you gradually recognize your self as the Self.
Consciousness is a kind of light that is kindled like a fire, the Universe is the tinderbox. As all the mystics have said, it's all one spark, passing through various mechanisms like electricity in a circuit.
Selfness is another type of singularity of which we are all fractal expressions.
Staying with someone as they pass is so sombering and poetic and a deeply loving gesture.
Having someone there to see you off on your voyage is really special, like they take your heart and love with them as they cross the threshold.
Very, very well put.
@@Gonko100 Much love. Lex has built a really great and unique space for ideas to be shared.
That was cool AF
The singularity is why Buddhism teaches compassion, because when you love someone you dissolve the self. Zen states that we never exist how we think we do, so death is not a thing when it's all void anyways. I think Therefore I am is one of the largest assumptions taken at face value that has hindered a lot of Western Philosophy on limiting the self to the body-mind organism process.
Amazingly well said. Who did you quote or reference?
I've experienced exactly this. Your words resonate with me on an insane level.
Lex finally interviewed a dismembered head
Death is not scary at all , life is and what dies inside you when you are still alive . Greetings from Finland
Thanks for such a dark take on life :O
I think thats attempting to rationalize death tbh. It's in our instincts to be afraid to die. Even if logically we can understand that the probability there's an afterlife as the one depicted by religions is zero. We're all afraid to die.
Lol
@@bane2256 your name is bane , "lol" .
@@Gentlemanclub5 rauha
I experienced death twice, I was under the general anesthesia, my brain wave stopped, ventilator was breathing for me. When I woke out of it, I had no sense of passage of time as if that time under didn’t exist.
The paradox is that nobody wants to die but nobody complains about being dead.
Lex, I feel less alone in this big world every time you share your thoughts ⚡
I know there is life after death after a visit from a dead friend the moment he passed, and I answered about what had happened before the person who called to let me know. I'm here to tell you, consciousness goes on.
Interestingly there are a lot of case reports of this in parapsychology. Cal Cooper compiled a bunch of cases of people getting telephone calls from deceased relatives. You should check it out.
@@timflelter5566 That is interesting. Come to find out, a lot of my friend's relatives were visited by him that night, as well. I felt awake (In the dream), if that makes sense. In a crisp, bright room. He gave me a message for his family. I had this dream at the exact time he died.
@@craige.sawyerhorrorwriter521 thats really cool. Those experiences are way more common than you think. Did the message he tell you align with those he told his relatives?
@@timflelter5566 He told me not to worry too much about this existence, and I was on the right path. He asked me to tell his family that wasn't in pain and he loved them. This dream (visit) felt very different from a normal dream. When I woke the next morning I was compelled to search for him on social media, but I recieved the phone call from my brother later that day. My brother said "I have some bad news for you," and I answered "Michael ***** is dead." He was like..."How did you know?" I was doing a fast during the time. I've thought about it inside and out.
I had a similar experience with my lifelong bestfriend, our moms were best friends and we were born 3 months apart and raised as bestfriends but we viewed each other as brothers, he passed away after a fight with cancer, I wasnt there when he passed but I felt it, I woke up feeling lost, it was a beautiful warm day but it felt empty and cold, about noon his dad had informed me he had passed that morning! It's hard to believe these things for some folks but spiritual connections are real
Love is the feeling you get, when in the dark a hand reaches out to touch and hold on to you very gently, and you know you never want it to go away.
Gayy
I love you Lex. Your bucket list joke made me cackle out loud with laughter during a sad time when I needed a laugh. I don’t know if your comedian friends are rubbing off on you, but you have a special ability to mix humor in with your deep, thoughtful conversations. I sincerely enjoy following your channel.
Energy doesn't diminish, it goes on. I beleive your "soul" moves onto other dimensions, not being held back by physical constraints.
It doesn’t make sense that life is capped on either end by infinite darkness. It seems everything fundamentally in this world is a wave, an osculation, so life is more like a flicking on and off for eternity probably
Don’t say never. You never know what this beautiful life may throw at you.
Comprehending death and what’s after by comparing to what’s known of life is foolish. Those are two completely different events.
Completely valid.
Exactly
I've tried to share what wit and simple observations give me comfort, when asked about what I think death will be like? Probably like the literal eternity of non existence that we already went through.
Death isn’t scary. The act of dying in pain potentially is what is the most scary.
Without death nothing has value
I'm not afraid of death, but what I am afraid of is suffering during the process of death
Your conciseness came into existence once. Who's to say it won't happen twice?
Death is fine, it’s the unknown that’s scary.
that's the definition of fear.
In a sense we die every night. The Upanishads say that sleep and death are the same, but one is permanent and one is not. The process is the same. When you sleep you pass through two stages, dreaming and dreamless sleep. In the first, consciousness is withdrawn from the body and senses, but the mind is still engaged. In dreamless sleep however, consciousness is withdrawn from the mind as well. According to this analysis, the ego dies every night. We don't fear sleep because we're certain we'll wake up the next day.
@@HigherPlanes you don’t need to lose consciousness to lose your self. There people that suffered permanent memory loss they don’t have an identity to them
@@kaushikkam2596 you actually find yourself when you lose consciousness.
@@HigherPlanes can you explain that more?
Appreciate these great interviews, but it’s obviously such a massive assumption/paradigm in the science world that death equals darkness and oblivion. An agnostic attitude is far more scientifically appropriate.
Also, talking about a “second darkness” is illogical. Darkness requires consciousness to be perceived; ‘darkness’ is not ‘nothing’
"Death is a mirror in which all of the mysteries of life are reflected."
-The Egyptian Book of the Dead
"The true warrior has three eyes: one for the opponent, one for the self, and one for the unseen world."
-Lucifeast
"The true captain of the Star-ship Enterprise has three ears: The left ear, the right ear and the final front ear".
-Spock
"Do or do not, there is no try."
-- Master Yoda
Why You Really Really Don't Want To Live Forever" Brett Gallaher HuffingtonPost
Death is just a change of worlds
It's just walking through a doorway into your REAL home. We're only a tendril descending from a vast vine.
@@2romanova1928 beautiful ❤️
Eternal darkness is implying that consciousness is acknowledging that it is dark? Without consciousness, how would one know that it is darkness?! We don't know - but you sure as hell can guess that it is not at all as simple as that?? How come these people who haven't experienced death seem to know what most of us don't ?? Is it a materialist hypothesis at best? Yes, I'd say it is.
That's what I seen as a kid when I got hit by car it was eternal darkness and I just knew I existed it
Interesting. I have not found “humans” to be particularly wonderful. Mostly problematic to be sure.
Anyone who says their not scared of the unknown. Is lying
People are dumbest when they're led by fear. Ol' Shakespeare coined it fer me: to be, or not to be. You did not exist before life, and you won't after it. That said, i think it's spiritually healthy to believe in other stuff so go for it if you need that.
“The night is young…” 🤣😭
I dont fear death for myself. But I do fear dying and leaving my children. Hopefully it doesn't happen until they are grown adults
I agree. I've always wanted to experience the deep profound sincerity of combat and positive aspects of it. Yet the consequences of such an event are obvious. Maybe in the future we will manufacture such experiences virtually. Maybe we already are virtually have experiences. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
I used to think pretty often about killing people. So it was interesting for mehr that heute brought up this topic. Not just for revenge or emotional reasons. Just for curiosity and "excitment" (I have no better word for it). But interestingly psychedelics (especially LSD) changed my mind, view and desire for it. It is like this "desire" has totally been gone.
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Sharing’s fun..👀
I’m glad that inclination was diffused by the psychedelics, no one should have that kind of morbid curiosity poisoning their soul. I’m glad you see differently now
Is this you ted Bundy?
If all conscious beings die does the universe still exist?
All beings are conscious. Eliminating beings from existing will have no effect on the existence of the universe. If you eliminate all beings from ever existing, which you can’t, then the universe never existed to begin with.
@@jerrylance4932 I agree with this. But how did it happen. Time manipulation? This topic is so weird now. I feel like im an independent girl, xd.
@@jerrylance4932Getting rid of every living being would still leaves stars, planets, asteroids, black holes, nebulas, galaxies...should I go on?
No one actually cares about death itself. That's stupid. People care about not doing everything they wish they could before they die. They care about the people who need them and can't afford to die.
“It’s later than you think”
“ The reason humans come upon the earth, in this temporal limited human experience, in order to realize our true nature of eternal, knowing awareness.”
They are waiting to take us into
The severed garden
Do you know how pale and wanton thrillful
Comes death on a strange hour
Unannounced, unplanned for
Like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
Brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
And gives us wings
Where we had shoulders
Smooth as raven's
Claws
No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
Until it's other jaw reveals incest
And loose obedience to a vegetable law.
I will not go
Prefer a feast of friends
To the giant family
@@billybatchelor2863 James Douglas Morrison
"humans are generators of awesomeness" , hmmmm wouldn't say that really outweighs the amount of bullshit generated
Bro just openly admitted he wants to kill someone someday
Hypothesis: With your approach to love and life, the robotic autopilot slows down and your perception of time should also slow down. Therefore, when you are in the state of true presence, does time go fast or slow for you? Are you forming new and novel experiences and memories in those moments?
'Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death'
The meaning of life? What an unbearably broad question, which provokes an equally broad answer, which is never satisfying. I think as we mature we will know better than to ask such questions. Let's assume I know the answer (and that there really is an answer) and tell you it is X. That wouldn't be satisfying because then you would want to know the meaning of X, which of course is Y, and then you would want to know the meaning of Y. There is no end to knowledge. We ate from the tree, and here we are.
The first thing Ayhuasca told me was that I've been here before, many times, and that everything is an illusion but love and the connection we have with each other.
No one can prove that they themselves are actually going to die.
The night is still young🤣 cracks me up
Loved lexs thoughts on what he thought was the why.
Being in the moment or being blissed out with unconditional love are not states of being that are easy to sustain, if you were constantly blissed out with unconditional love you wouldn't get much done because you would be completely blown away with everything, particularly human beings 😊
Unfortunately they might not be as excepting towards you in that state.
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As" Woody Allen one said" i am not afraid of death i just dont want to be there when it happens"...😊
Don't choose the darkness, Jesus Christ offers eternal life for all those that believe in him for salvation.
oh piss off, man...
In a year or two - when the robots are done taking everybody's job, all I'll do all day long is listen to this podcast.
"I'm not afraid of death. And I think part of that is that I was married for a while." :)
I agree!!!
Not if you believe in the after life it's one darkness and two lights
Is consciousness a evolutionary response to death?
Can you elaborate? It sounds interesting
How can it be an evolutionary response to death when every thing eventually dies dude
*hits blunt*
Spellings of genes that keep us from dying are an evolutionary response to death. Our consciousness is likely inherited for a reason, yes
@@Dedicated_.1 went all the way over your head huh?
Don’t wear black if you’re on Lex’s podcast I guess….
Exactly
Lex, you are a beautiful soul 🌞
I would NEVER call death a "second darkness". We create our own reality on the astral plane (that's why NDE people see whatever religious deities they believe in...Shiva, Jesus, Odin ect ect when they die and come back) so telling people it will be darkness....if they believe it.....will get just that! That's why criminals see hellish things when they have a NDE....because they expect that. So careful man.
Are u saying we our gods after death ? :O
I've had this exact thought before.
@@fccbaraka5723 I'd put it more like this...the forces of nature take the form we expect them to be after death. But it shows some level of respect for us from the Gods that they do this for us. They let us chose the form they take.
This guy is in for a surprise. We go on.
For the body there is no death only consciousness dies
I choose to believe in an after life. I feel I sense there is
You can start a relationship and have proof of the afterlife lol. i sit here day after day watching people walk towards destruction because they are not willing to take the time to find God. Repent and wash your hands, draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Pray for him to intervene in your life and look for the motion of His hand. Revelation 3:20 "Here I am I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door i will eat with that person and they with me". Listen for Him
This is from the GIta, which has helped answered many questions in life:
"Life is like a school, one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade, as long as a debt of karma remains however, a person must keep coming back for further education. That is the basis of Samsara, the cycle of birth and death."
In profound meditation, the ancient sages found when consciousness is so acutely focused that it is utterly withdrawn from the body and mind, it enters a kind of singularity in which the sense of ego disappears, in this supreme climax of meditation, seers discovered a core of consciousness beyond time and change, they called it Atman, simply...the self.
Once identified with the self we know that although the body will die, we will not die. Our awareness of this identity is not ruptured by the death of the physical body. Then we have realized the immortality which is the essential birthright of every human being. Death is no more dramatic than taking off an old coat. Life cannot offer any more higher realization, the supreme goal of human existence has been attained. The man or woman who realized God, has everything and lacks nothing. Having this, they desire nothing else and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow.
The Upanishads describe dying as a very similar process to sleep. Consciousness is withdrawn from the body into the senses, from the senses into the mind and finally consolidated in the ego. When the body is finally wrenched away, the ego remains, a potent packet of desires and karma. As our last waking thoughts shape our dreams, the contents of the unconscious at the time of death, the residue of all that we have thought and desired and lived for in the past determine the context of our next life. We take a body again, the sages say, to come back to just the conditions where our desires and karma can be fulfilled."
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I think death is more like anesthesia in surgery, like propofol. Once you are given the anesthesia, you have no consciousness and hours can pass and when you wake from it, it is just like a moment has passed. With death though, you don't wake up. Whatever happens afer that, if anything at all, no one knows. Lots of theories and speculation but no one truly knows.
I used to fall into the materialist dogma, but in the last year or so my manner of thinking about all of this has shifted dramatically. I find that my outlook on everything echoes much of what you said here. Interesting stuff this all is.
@@ether23-23 I find it very fascinating as well. My thinking has shifted somewhat throughout my life but the notion that there is an immortal and immutable realm has been pretty persistent in my thinking. I've been practicing yoga meditation to confirm this for myself for 25 years now. I feel like each day I come closer, but it takes persistent practice.
I think Shakespeare had the insight into the nature of what it means to live & die, & did it succinctly
It would have been impossible to imagine this world before we were born into it, suddenly from 'nothing', so I believe it's naive to think something wont happen after.
we didnt exist for billions of years then all of a sudden you just have memories and yoir alive and u don’t remember being born ita hard to believe that death is just the end of everything and this is all for nothing
I don't know why but lately when taking pictures I've been able to capture images of ghosts both humanoid and animal. Recently a very old stray dog wandered on to my property, was unable to find its owner so I decided to keep him. Early one morning the dog had a very bad seizure and stopped breathing for a while, at the time I could see some form of energy above his body so I quickly took a picture, not only did I get an image of the dog outside of his body,
I believe I have an image of his collector or guide.
It's not Nabokov. It's Kazantzakis.
"We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
Listening to atheists/materialists talk about these non-matetial things is so weird. It's like they're not realizing what they're doing. The spiritual world is present for every human regardless of their beliefs.
Any claim made on the nature of the afterlife is a claim predicated on an absolute unknowing.
The death of the body is inconsequential. Anyone can experience his own awareness as unbounded and eternal at any time. I use the Transcendental Meditation technique and twice a day experience a light brighter than a million Suns shining eternally. That light is infinite bliss, peace, love, and knowledge. It is beyond time and space and beyond the material world. It does not need a physical body to be alive. How sad to even think of death or eternal darkness when this experience is now open to all.
I don't see how you can have one universal definition for the purpose of life. I'm sure anyone reading this who has had a life filled with immense suffering would question the purpose of life very differently then another with a life of far less suffering. Seemingly endless suffering makes the ideas about life's purpose to be for love or to create beauty nothing more than cringy platitudes that come from individuals with a much lighter life experience. Since a single life experience is on a spectrum of possibilities there cannot be a singular reason for life...at least not one that can be understood by a singular being who only experiences one life on a spectrum of infinite possibilities...many of which are horrifying and painful. If you find yourself being born into one of those lives...see if you come out talking about love and engineering
This has actually really changed my outlook on life. Didn’t expect this video to give me hope or comfort
Penn Jillette once said “does the year 1840 scare you? You weren’t alive, you weren’t conscious in any way. So why would the year 2060 be any different?”
Because I may still be alive and conscious in 2060.
Lol @ all the comments of living people tryna say what death...IS going to be like
Ive seen 2 angels… 1 when i was 16 and the night my mom died 3 years ago on October 1st. No drugs. Always been agnostic… Both in trees. I asked the 1st a few questions and it spelled words with branches and limbs, was not the answers i wanted to get….. I said god doesnt love me…. it glowed like a giant cross/angel for about two hours while i watched it, crying like a b|+ch