You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the ...
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer ...
