#afterlife

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

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About Today’s Guest: Gregory Shushan, PhD, is a historian of religions, an award-winning author, and the leading authority on near-death experiences and the afterlife across cultures and throughout history. His books include The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the #Afterlife, Near-Death Experiences #NDE in #Indigenous Religions, and Near-Death Experience in #Ancient Civilizations (coming soon from Inner Traditions). His forthcoming titles include The Historical Anthology of Near-Death Experiences, and #Mind #Dust and White Crows: The Psychical #Research of William James (both as editor).
Dr. Shushan’s website: https://www.gregoryshushan.com #THC
https://www.thehighersidechats.com/dr-gregory-shushan-near-death-experience-in-indigenous-religion-afterlife-journeys-resurrection/

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aqC_HZayncs

Today’s guest is #TomCampbell. Tom is a Physicist and #Consciousness Researcher that began researching altered states of consciousness with Bob Monroe in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe’s laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running.

He has been experimenting with and writing and speaking about consciousness ever since. There is a stillness about Tom, and deep inner knowing that you will experience when you listen to this conversation. Even though I have spent many years reading about and researching consciousness and time and space, this conversation and Tom’s work has forever shifted and altered the way that I understand and think about these things.

Through this vast and expansive conversation, we dive into Tom’s understanding of consciousness and answer some of the BIG questions like, Why are we here? Where do we go? Where does love fit into all of this? And a whole lot more!

I also want to say that it is OK not to agree with some of Tom’s discoveries and beliefs. In my humble opinion the truth about our existence is a multi layered reality. There are many answers that will construct the one truth. So take from this conversation the parts you need to add to your truth.

“We are here to grow up. We’re here to make good choices, and through the quality of our choices we evolve.” ~ Tom Campbell

Tom shares the work that he did with Bob Monroe in the 1970s, his first out-of-body experience, and how he can now have these experiences at will. Tom is a self-described skeptic and explains how these experiences allowed him to see what is fact and what reality, consciousness, and our purpose here really is.

We talk about what reality actually is, what those synchronicities might mean, and trying to tell you. I share a story that some of you may have heard already about a rubber ducky and how it continues to show up in my life, the life of my loved ones, and even people I’ve worked with.

He explains in great detail what happens when we die and how he knows this to be true, how we remain connected to those that have exited this reality, and how that connection changes as well. This conversation will stay with me in this life. It is truly extraordinary. You may want to listen to it a few times over because it is FULL of big ideas and concepts. -Christina Rasmussen

#Tom-Campbell | Out of Body Experiences, #Afterlife & The Larger Consciousness System (LCS)

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

The Wait

by Wil Wheaton

Thanks to Cory for the link.

https://wilwheaton.net/2023/06/the-wait/

Here's the beginning.

Pat Robertson walks past thousands of souls, smugly and full of pride, and cuts to the front of the line at the velvet rope in outside the entrance to his version of Heaven.\
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The bouncer looks up from their clipboard, observing Robertson with thousands of eyes in a swirling cascade of light.\
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“Pat Robertson,” they say. “We’ve been expecting you.”

#cory #cory-doctorow #wil-wheaton #pat-robertson #heaven #hell #afterlife #rush-limbaugh #death #life-after-death #the-wait

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Virgil

Here are troops of men
who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country,
and those who had been pure priests while still alive,
and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus;
those who enriched our lives with the newfound arts they forged
and those we remember well for the good they did mankind.

[Hic manus, ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi,
Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat,
Quique pii vates, et Phoebo digna locuti,
Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes,
Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.]

Virgil (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]
The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book 6, l. 660ff (6.660-664) (29-19 BC) [tr. Fagles (2006), l. 764ff]

#quote #quotation #afterlife #divinejustice #heaven #virtue #virtuous
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/virgil/57600/

wist@diasp.org

A quotation by Asimov, Isaac

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, “I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn’t that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-American author, polymath, biochemist

I, Asimov, ch. 73 “Letters” (1979)

#quotation #quote #afterlife #atheist #damnation #divine-punishment #hell #incivility #insult

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/asimov-isaac/48469/