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Why not check out Rudolf Steiner – he makes the most sense of anybody when it comes to explaining life and death, and much more besides. https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/

I think it’s very important to ask ourselves “why am I anxious of death?”. Death is a certainty, so why are we anxious of it? (Note: “anxious” is a better term as it implies an “unease”. When we experience fear we can sometimes know what to do. e.g. if a lion entered the room I would be afraid, but I would also be thinking “ok, how can I get out of this situation?”, death however we can not escape)

– above are rhetorical questions: the answer I believe is because most people today identify with their minds (perhaps *their* consciousness). Hence, when they die, they no longer exist.

That is a very self-centred way of viewing things. The universe will continue to exist after we die. Consciousness in others will continue to exist (in other humans). In fact, the more we think about it, we realise the way we perceive death is bit of an illusion (I know this sounds spiritual bs, but I trust that you’ll hear me out).

An example I like to give:

Assume I die 5 seconds after submitting this comment. What would change in the world? Nothing! All that I have done, I have already done. All the actions I did in this life, I already did. What would happen however is your mind would have to adjust itself to a new reality in which I am no longer alive (I would not be able to make future comments, there would be a funeral etc). But note: none of those future posts have happened yet! So we haven’t *lost* anything. The only things that changed is how your (and others) minds would think about the future.

Here’s another example: if you are conscious you are not dead. If you are dead you are not conscious. Hence, you can not experience death. So actually, what you are anxious about is the transition from being alive to being dead (the loss of agency). But note in order for you to experience loss of agency you need to be conscious, hence not dead.

Wholeheartedly recommend John Vervaeke’s lecture on the Epicureans: https://youtu.be/rpndwf45nao?t=1059 (which inspired the points about “anxiety” vs “fear” and the last example)

John Vervaeke btw is currently an Assistant Profesor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Toronto.

Not sure if this helps, but I hope to give you an idea of why I say “death is an illusion”.

Best Wishes!!
Eduard

Hi Dave – it’s been a while.

Finding having more time at home than usual, been able to get a few things done that had been left on the back burner. See here
https://blocl.uk/books
Are you okay with: ‘Radicals’ digest, exquisitely named so by the author of The Debt Generation?

Keep safe, Joe

Kavy

Followed him & his work a while ago – fascinating stuff & it appears to make sense to me that early man only needed limited desktop icons in order to survive, which is backed up by Penrose in his assertion that physicists, mathematicians etc would not have lasted very long without forms of civilisation.

The subject is easy enough to shrug off when you are young, which is just as well as it would likely lead to a lack of adventure, but as you get older & that horizon draws closer it becomes a bit of a shadow that follows wherever you go. I very nearly died something that left me with a deep fear that lasted a couple of years or so. This was not about dying as such, but the way of it & the timing to a lesser extent.

I have been kicked around the floor a few times, but that 20 minutes or so of my heart off & on impersonating a machine gun, while the rest of my body performed a version of some manic dance, with the feeling of been stomped on by an elephant & my jaw being tightened in a vice, was an event that massively paled any previous painful experiences. There was also the added extreme discomfort of not being able to breathe accompanied by a desperate thirst.

I also recall the old movies I watched as a kid, that always seemed to feature the death of someone in a domestic situation as lying in a comfortable bed, showing some discomfort as family members & doctors stood watching, which is how I believed it happened & didn’t seem so bad. Like wise heart attacks in movies are usually some fella suddenly clutching at his chest & perhaps wandering around a bit like Don Corleone before conking out & perhaps that is actually how it is for most people & if it were to happen again, that is how i hope it would occur for me.

CPR in movies & public info films is according to what the paramedics told me & what my partner saw, is nothing like the reality of it – even Vinnie Jone’s demo was it appears wimpish. 5 Cpr’s saved my life but the cost was around 6 months of pains in my chest from severely strained intercostal ribs that were much the same as the initial attack. This led to me ending up twice as a fraud sitting in A&E for hours on end, but I did get a good idea of how brilliant the A&E teams were & how they basically have to go flat out to cope with a not particularly busy weekday night.

Something very strange happened during the 5th CPR when the PM’s were thinking that they had lost me because I had a near death experience. It was very short & I suppose cliched as it matches the experience recounted by many others, as in being in a serene place way from all the pain & chaos, while in front of me 4 or 5 blurry & vaguely human shaped forms were becoming clearer. This was then interrupted by the PM’s face suddenly appearing as if through a membrane, with my reaction to this being a feeling of huge disappointment.

I didn’t think about it much for quite a while & just dismissed it as lack of oxygen to the brain & perhaps a dream or illusion, until I chanced on a German scientific study which it seems shows that it is a fairly common thing which for the most part induce the same sort of feeling. For a minority it is very scary all that peace & calm, but they are perhaps bankers & the like so screw them.

Anyhow as to death I have adopted the POV of the Woody Allen character’s Dad in the film ” Hannah & her Sisters ” who replied to his son when questioned on the subject ” I will be unconscious, if not I will deal with it then “. The experience did have the effect of further strengthening my feelings to what really matters in life ( to me anyway ) but the honeymoon period of still being alive didn’t last that long as the grind of this life re-commenced. I don’t know about the NDE, but it is intriguing & I would like to visit there again, but i can wait.

The Last Druid – Documentary on Ben McBrady of The Old Gaelic Order
Documentary describing the life of the late Irish druid, Ben McBrady.
Ben McBrady, known as Brady of the Name and Herenach of the Two Kilmores, was Aircinneac and Herenach of a pre-Druid Megalithic Order called “The Old Gaelic Order,” often referred to simply as “The Order.” Ben McBrady is believed to have been the last member of “The Old Gaelic Order.” Because of this he was called “The Last Druid.” He passed away in January of 1996. Ben McBrady was a descendant of Lugar MacLugair (Lughaid mac Loeguire), who was Chief Druid of Ireland and Druid to the High King Leary and the Kings of Leinster. Lugar MacLugair was also believed to have been a member of “The Old Gaelic Order.”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sCnrS01wNres/