"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

"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 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 !

I never, I mean, I never thought I’d see a head without a body taking about death. Mind blowing honestly.

“The night is young” You’ll never truly know what someone, including yourself, is capable of or will do at times.

We emerged out of the first darkness. I think that means perhaps we can find a way to emerge out of the next darkness.

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.

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".

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.

I can very much relate to what he is saying about watching someone your so close to die, and almost be at peace somehow instead of terrified with the thought of your own passing someday. Although not wanting to leave the world but being hopeful of the thought of possibly being with that person you watched pass.

Wow great talk! Been listening to this channel for about 3 months and I’m Hooked definitely good vibes here. Thank you for this!

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.

I loved Lex’s answer on the meaning of life. He seems like a great human being and I think he really is

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.

Ive experienced the love and gratitude intensely on Ayahuasca. To this day I experience gratitude in my daily life.

brilliant interview, as usual ❤

I used to carry a grudge against the bad things. But now I'm alot more concientious of gratitude that Every now and then I have stop, be still, relax( it's a problem to) and thankfully for all of it. I say thank you for being alive in this experience . As bad as I Think I've had, others have worse. I wouldn't take back or trade my experience on this go round not even for all the gold in the world.All that gold anyway, if I didn't earn it it don't mean nothin to me.

I love the little candle. That is so wonderful.

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.

I enjoy this channel a lot. Great ideas discussed once again in this video.

Great stuff guys!

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.

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.

Wow . Love this clip as it has such a level of humanity and profundity intertwined. Great podcast guest

Cancer is indeed the worst. I am sorry.

I enjoy listening to Lex so much! His take on the purpose that we are all here for is dead on. I couldn’t have put it better myself. I feel in my gut that he is exactly right.

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?

(3:33) This look conveys all I feel when I read Dostoevsky. Classic! Love you lex thank you.

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. 😉😊✌

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.

Not one single person that has “come back” stated there was nothing. In fact some neurosurgeons used to believe it was the dying brain giving the experience until they themselves had a near death experience and have admitted there’s no way they could have had brain activity at the time. It’s going to be okay.

I’m so lucky to be alive and yesterday I spent it forcing myself to study my book and do some crunches and workout. Then I hid in my room all day.

"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

Lex is the rainy satruday of podcasting

If all conscious beings die does the universe still exist?

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

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.

Energy doesn't diminish, it goes on. I beleive your "soul" moves onto other dimensions, not being held back by physical constraints.

Don’t say never. You never know what this beautiful life may throw at you.

We don't know what came before or what came after, but life is no different than a dream, only longer and more stable and steady. As for meaning, the question tries to impose human needs on a more than human experience. Only those things sacred to you have any meaning.

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

“The night is young…” 🤣😭

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.

Thank you

The night is still young🤣 cracks me up

I’ve always wanted to explore the question of what’s the meaning of life and I try to find the smartest people who I can during my journey through my life and I asked them what they think and I never get a really good answer. And Lex I like your answer but still that’s not really a meaning like what’s the purpose of life other than love and just to live in the moment. I love to have some conversations with you about this and other deep topics

I think Shakespeare had the insight into the nature of what it means to live & die, & did it succinctly

Death is not scary at all , life is and what dies inside you when you are still alive . Greetings from Finland

The paradox is that nobody wants to die but nobody complains about being dead.

“It’s later than you think”

Love the candle

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."

“In order to create anything beautiful we have to do it at the edge of the destruction.” 4:09

Please look into Ian Stevenson's research. He's passed but Jim Tucker continues with it.

I love this interview with the floating head

“Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness’s.” - E. M. Forster

6:15 very well put.

"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......?

I’d wager this life is the second darkness and we can vibrate upwards out

The curiosity of what happens to you when you die, dies when you die.

What I fear most is if an afterlife will be like eternal dream time as I have awful dreams that I remember every morning. To be stuck in my dream space would be genuine hell

The ecumenical fears are; the fear of death, pain, and the unknown.

Not sure if I believe anyone who says they're not afraid of death. If you're not afraid of that then there should be nothing for you to be afraid of. Usually said by people who dont realize they will die(even if they think they do.)

I personally don't fear death, as in the process of death. What is difficult, is to comprehend the eternity of nothingness.

You only go around once (as far as we know), make it count.

"the night is young" 😀

That’s so interesting that their dormant like that

Death surely can't parcel out the pain life can........

ás vezes eu me pergunto se a segunda eterna escuridão é a coisa que torna a luz possivel.

Don't you need consciousness to acknowledge what darkness is ??

“The night is young.” Lex 🤣😂🤣

Comprehending death and what’s after by comparing to what’s known of life is foolish. Those are two completely different events.

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.

@ 4:17 One has to create space, to create.

The third darkness is lex's studio.

I feel these feelings to

It the physical pain I used to be affair of. No more fear

“ The reason humans come upon the earth, in this temporal limited human experience, in order to realize our true nature of eternal, knowing awareness.”

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.

You should interview Bernardo Kastrup!

Is consciousness a evolutionary response to death?

Life exists solely as a form in which to experience existence.

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.

There is a Heaven and a hell, & He is beyond a shadow of your doubt and mine. Seek the Lord while He may be found.

it is just like before we are born , there is nothing to be afraid of 🤫

I have had a near death experience. It was NOT dark. It was like being in a warm caccoon of unconditional and overwhelming love that I never felt previously. There was no concept of time. I talked to someone without speech. Could not see the person I had the conversation with - the being was too bright. I did see shadows in the periphery. I think most fear manner of death moreso than death itself. Have tended to dying family members and others as well. To me, the meaning of life is to serve and speak of the Bible if the other person is interested. Despite many challenges in life , i have been very blessed. Ironically , I have worked with murderers ( no security " handy ). Grappled them to the floor if they posed a danger to others as they were all so great to me. Didn't even swear in my presence unless they were new to the unit. I never injured anyone. I only used as.much force as neccessay and occasionally pressure points on the body. But , if someone went to harm my children, I would likely not kill but perhaps " lose it ' and perhaps maim the individual. But perhaps I could maintain self control, grapple and hold and be quite verbally firm and swear.

I think it is riskier to believe there's nothing more after this life.

Death doesn't care how we feel nor does life. The most bizzare thing about life is that we accept our appearance into this realm of being beyond our choosing. But to choose, to accept or reject, is pre-programmed in the dna that is pulling us into its existence. Love=all is one. Creation=all that life does to manifest. To experience appreciation of our existence is a pre programmed universal feeling beyond our control.

10:18 "I'm never going to murder anyone." "The night is young..." el oh el!

“The night is young” 😂😂😂😂😳

I choose to believe in an after life. I feel I sense there is

Thoughts of any kind of afterlife is the great consolation..a conceptual idea designed to protect from fear of death. The hardest thing for humans seems to be to just look at what probably is..we disappear completely for all eternity. That's it...the cold hard truth

"I'm not afraid of death. And I think part of that is that I was married for a while." :)

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

The greatest mercy nature gave man was to allow it to die.

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.

Humanity needs a daddy... Someone to chastise us when we are stepping out of line. Who's your daddy Lex? We apparently really could use another sentient creature to help teach us our lessons, because apparently we aren't capable of learning them ourselves??? Except for I don't believe that at all... I don't know about you? But life has taught me very well and I don't feel like I need a daddy at all... Though it would be nice to have one... What I really can't stand is how person after person grows up, learns about life, the challenges we face, the fight between the good that exists in us and all the ugly and instead of learning the lessons those challenges present and moving forward in a new direction. We simply stay exactly where we have been, since seemingly the beginning. We've stayed so long in this constant state of turmoil and existential angst that we pass on stories from generation to generation about how this is simply how life will always be. How humans will always be. Instead of the useful information about how to overcome your vices and the challenges that arise. I'm 33, extremely average intelligence, and I come from a very uneducated family. Yet I've learned plenty about life and how to overcome adversity. I've learned about the importance of family, of friendship, of community, of self reliance, of independence, of interconnectedness, of dependence, trust, and on and on. How the fuck could someone like me know so much about all that stuff? What is even more shocking to me and what I wish everyone would wake up to is why is that knowledge seemingly so rare? Surely that would be literally the first knowledge any human would ever master? Because if you are a species that wants to continue to exist, solving these literal basic challenges of existing as sentient creatures would be the prime directive. I can't help but sense from you and your guest a perhaps undeserved pride of feeling so smart for knowing what you know about the world when in reality anyone who experiences trials and tribulations will learn what you place so highly on the mantel of what it is to be alive. Love, friendship, comradeiery, ect I wish I had your ability to compartmentalize so effectively. Because the more I learn about us and our bloody and miserable history and the downward trajectory we seemingly are set on I become more and more aware of how strange it is that our species hasn't progressed pass these challenges. And instead all of the ugly aspects of what we are continue to grow out of control. How many generations of people does it take to survive, to struggle, to suffer, to love, before we figure out how to successfully navigate life and teach the methods of learning and overcoming the challenges we have faced to the new generation? Why have so many people been convinced that we simply cannot rise above our own self imposed limitations. You absolutely terrify me Lex because you reek of something that has in the end absolutely no interest in what happens to humanity as a whole. As a member of the human race doesn't it make you the least bit sad to think that our species might not exist in the near future? Instead you speak so matter of fact about our inevitable extinction? What the fuck have you learned about our existence that has made you so comfortable with our inevitable return back to that eternal darkness?? I'm sorry I sound so hostile. Look, I also am not afraid of death. What I'm really afraid of is living... What happens if death isn't the end? What happens if I will live again?? Would I really be happy finding myself alive again in a world like the one I find myself in? That's the type of questions that keep me up at night. I hope you think about those types of questions too! You're a cool dude! I mean no offense! You're not going to see this comment anyways... So whatever lol

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 disagree with you on the idea that we have to " experience " all these aspects of being human ! There is a much more valuable way to point your " attention " . This is where we can begin to understand what the difference between what is worth attending to !

The observer never dies…..is just set free