An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
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Do we survive bodily death? Can our personal awareness transcend physical decay and dissolution? There are no bigger questions and there is no shortage of answers. Religions offer hope, with extravagant promises that are founded on the existence of God.
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What is death? Our materialist science reduces everything to matter, materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we’re just our bodies. So when the brain is dead, that’s the end of consciousness, there is no life after death, there is no soul; we just rot and are gone.
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The question the human soul wants an answer to: What is there after we die, does a part of me continue to be or do we dissolve into an amorphous state? Neale Donald Walsch and don Miguel Ruiz talk about the ideas of what is there after we pass.
Best-selling author Elizabeth Lesser describes how observing her sister Maggie as she prepared for death made her believe more strongly in an afterlife.