Dr. Smith was over 90 at this time. How impressive; what a mind. He will be missed.

Dr. Smith, you are a treasure. Your inner light and beauty fills us with joy. How lucky we are you have had you share the planet with us so we could reap some of your wisdom. We hold you in the light. Many blessings in your final years. Much love to you.

I just lost my dad ate 82 and I am so glad he is happy again and with his family and friends with Jesus. Thank you for the interview.

His life, knowledge and teachings have been a huge blessing to me. A true scholar and gentleman in every sense. I can only hope that we'll have many more great men like Huston Smith down the road.

Actually, the quote from Einstein is: “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” ― Albert Einstein

what an amazing interview..the warmth of Dr Smith Soul is so palpable. Bless his soul. may we meet!

I saw my life through the eyes of God. I saw how every piece of my life had come together to make a perfect and beautiful story. There was nothing beautiful about my life from my eyes. I had starved myself for 2 weeks because I am anorexic. I was asked "What do you believe to be true about Jesus?" "That .He died on the cross for ME!" In that moment I was free from all things that had haunted me.

Dr. Smith- "Thank You" doesn't come close to expressing my gratitude...YOUR work has made me want to be a better person and recognize too that I am enough :) Blessings to you-sweet blessings - Namaste!!!

in his body's death, Dr Huston has merged with the eternal source. the journey continues....

A very knowledgeable man. I am happy for what he has learned and shared with us. Thank you, Dr. Smith.🙂👍🏻

A very intelligent man and a great conversation. Look out religion, because spirituality is on the Rise!

I experienced a GLIMPSE" of "REMEMBRANCE" from the beginning of Creation,when all of WE/US-Souls/Conscience were together.We participated in ALL of Universes Creation & WE were Always a Blessing,NEVER SINNERS.This REMEMBRANCE" is in ALL of US! We do not come here to LEARN-Only to REMEMbER WHO WE ARE/HAVE BEEN! Thank you for your compassionate interview!

This man, Huston Smith, is a man I can fully relate to on religion, I think he's very close with my philosophy!

I admire Dr. Smith so much, thank you!!

This is a wonderful interview but everything was said 250 years ago by Emanuel swedenborg and all near death experiences verify almost everything that he said. my advice if anyone wants to read swedenborg is to read what scholares have said and there are many scholarly books. thank you for this wonderful interview it is much appreciated I have read houstons books and I know something about his philosophy

What a wonderful interview. Bless you for doing this.

I am currently reading his book: Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions. I am fascinated with what this man writes, I totally reccomend that book!!

The great apostle Paul said " i dont know what well be but i know when we see him( Jesus) we will be like him...i wanna be like Jesus.

Beautiful and comforting. Thank you.

really enjoyed it, thank you!

Praise this man he is old n yet holds no grievances n preaches love n to b good to each other’s feel th pain u cause also, as Jesus sed what u do to the least of these I have done to me god bless him & all u brothers & sisters out there

Dr. Smith, wherever you are, thank you and many blessings.

Awwwww He is super Sweet I've saw the chanting!!! Awwww what a peaceful sound! Totally beautiful!!! Awww this has me with a huge smile right now!!! ( and teary eyes )

Near Death Experiences are great. But I would still love to encounter someone who returned from a Post Death Experience.

Very informative talk.

By these Near Death Experiences, we understand that, we all are the children of the same God.He created us with love. ''Religion does not matter'' He wants us to love each other same way. But, we human beings do not understand the pure and unconditional love advice from God. We did war for thousands of year everywhere on the earth and killed millions of people, ( young, elder, children and women) and we are still doing war and killing each other everywher,lots of people are still suffering. Please , convey this unconditional love mesages from GOD to your rulers ( to presidents, P. Minister, ect.) and hope they understand and stop warring and stop producing arm meterials, especially nuclear arms.

Lovely man.

he has a wonderful way of explaining it, I like him.

Yes there are people who have returned from death. There's loads of people who have. And given their testimony.. look harder!!

Wow Mrs. Smith well put your an amazing person

Nice interview, my favourite bit was brain acting as an inhibitor of consciousness, its an amazing hypothesis. I guess thats why the exercise of shutting your mind is so hard when one tries to meditate. I guess interpretation of all world religions are very superficial. Eastern religious practices involve lot of rituals and modern Abrahamic believers care a lot on judgement. I recon middle path as Dr. Smith reconciles is the right way where spirituality and science are two separate notions. You can't put one lens on to other and judge it.

NDE: George Ritchie’s account Return from Tomorrow. This holds great weight for me. Pre internet, pre Moody’s books, he had to be persuaded to have his story written and went on to be a renowned practising psychiatrist. He met with Jesus. And was asked: “What have you done to glorify me?” Something to consider for those who casually dismiss the Judeo/Christian narrative (and the old/new covenant is all one narrative) Also. Howard Storm and Ian McCormack, both compelling testimonies. Much respect to Houston Smith, a very experienced and knowledgeable man. Interesting that over time he “pushed” the Dali Llama about the existence of a soul, even more interesting that he in a (vague way) conceded we have one. In other interviews Houston Smith said he is a Christian because he knows he needs forgiveness. How true ! And how do we receive it ? This is a gift through Christ, not earned through being good enough (the works of imperfect man) or an endless recycling of self. We live once, face Him and face judgement. To use legal terminology guilty would be the just and righteous verdict, but we set free to enjoy (be in) his presence because of the price Yeshua paid. Deeds are “weighed” however. Again: “What have you done to glorify me?” Sobering. Amen. (So be it)

beautiful! thanks so much for posting this! my favorite quote: "...what we perceive as mundane, is unreal. It is an optical defect." i take it to mean that we perceive many things as being mundane, but that in reality everything is utterly alive and beautiful.

Very wise man

Very nice!

A great man, Huston Smith.

What a champion!

lovely guy

God breathed a soul into Adams nostrils

This interview was intriguing and has raised so many questions and comments that I'd like to make but I'll hold my peace for now. One I will ask concerns Dr. Smith's statement, which I may not understand: that "the light on the television never goes out." I'm having trouble with this analogy because when I turn off or unplug my TV, the light on the television does go out. Can someone clarify this statement by Dr. Smith? Thanks :)

i myself doubt the existence of " god " , as in the god of the christian bible . but on the other hand i have always felt that there is more to come after our physical life on earth is over .

Makes me wonder why some have such extraordinary lives and others have not too much to there lives?

Very nice :)

he agrees existence of soul ,re incarnation ,rebirth as per Hindu philosophy do no pain to others ,that means karma effect,

I think dr Huston Smith never followed J krishnamurtis philosophy or I may be wrong.

Wot a lovely old cap God bless

Lovely😀

Thanks !

A wonderful interview, thank you. 'Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God' A Course in Miracles.

What Cute Super Sweet Grandpa!!

His speaking cadence is so strange like that of the robotic voice from a customer service center. I had to speed it up 2X in order for it to sound normal.

We know nothing.

my name is Huston smith

William James 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'....

QUESTIONS! When The Energy of The Body Leaves The Body Where Does The Energy Goes! Lol

I am not sure that energy survives death, since energy is part of PHYSICAL (virtual) reality. Consciousness survives death. Consciousness is not material/energy.

I know this is an old video, but did I hear him right when he said he believed in HELL?

Jesus came back to prove there’s no death . And many others have had “ A Near Life experience “ called mistakenly NDE...

The interviewer lacks knowledge. People do come back from death and talk about it. Plus, the NDE occurs in the mind aka spirit body

He was a dear person, well-loved by all who knew him (including me) and far above most in his knowledge..both divine and human. There's a proverb in Arabic though: فوق كل عالم العليم (Above every knower is one more knowing). Many great men, like him, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings and James Cutzinger (who reversed his course before he passed away)...all of them were close disciples of Frithjof Schuon. None of them saw that he was one of the greatest heretics of all time; AND, in important places, THEY taught what HE taught. Their authority, if they were called Shaykh's, also came from a false course! They are STILL great men! Life and knowledge of the Truth with a capital T, are not simple! Everyone who loves these authors, as I do, needs to surpass a few things, before they can find those who are "more knowing." And those words "more knowing" refer to a knowledge so very much higher that, symbolically, one could say it's 165,000 times higher than what ALL these very great men knew! See a starting place up, here: frithjofschuon.wordpress.com

Some people die miserably some dies peacefully. Its not all the same to people.

#deep

death is the beginning

No body should speak about something thing of which he/she does not have first hand information or experience. It is not necessary to know "what after death". All that is necessary is to concentrate on this life and live it in a sacred way.

This gentlemen looks like John Malkovich’s dad.

WORSHIPPER OF THE STATUE BEHIND HIM

Google prayer 3:14

This guy says that "hell fire" is a metaphor for pain and not literal fire. The Bible mentions the smoke from this hell. It takes a literal fire to create smoke.

@321novrain Namaste - Well said

really? only 4 dislikes? hmm!

The matter to energy conversion Einstein mentioned isn't accurate used here. When you die or have an NDE the body still exists and the perception explained by NDE exists as a separate entity, not destroying the body visible and still functioning cellularly (a requisite to coming back), and when you die that mass still exists but decays under enzymatic and microbial action we are all familiar with from food left to long in the fridge. The matter to energy exchange happens in nuclear explosions and is quite energetic, only a small amount of radioactive matter converts into city distroying energy, if that happened when people died we'd have no cities left. I agree on the complexity reducer concept around 13:40, in that NDE's have a regular experience of timeless and spaceless and separationless we need to experience to be here and learn the lessons we do.

@OrthodoxVideos Not all Christians believe that at all.

We turn to heat...no we turn to light

Lord Krishna is real god. Am from India . Our lord said those things in Geeta the holy book before 5000 years ago .

WELL PUT- I WISH I WOULD SAID THAT ( laughs) CAN HE BE ANY SWEETER?? awww.....

Yooo......

The brain is showing us what is modified down ........the unreal

When your born into this world, you are born into this sinful world. Flesh was cursed and accepting this flesh means accepting the fact that it is in this raw cursed state that you come into. Like it or not. When your here, you can be freed of the curse or sin nature and then go about living this life and enjoying it without condemnation hanging over your head, by asking for forgiveness of this curse or commonly known of as sin. You may feel that you didn’t do anything to be forgiven for, but you were born and that’s all it takes. That’s where Jesus comes in. If your here, he knows it. He’s waiting for you to sign in so he can get moving on your life. He’s got things waiting for you to do. Your disbelief in this has no bearing on it being truthful or not. If the ship left without you, you can make as many clever and interesting stories why you didn’t take it, but after all the layers of bull get striped away, that thing you didn’t believe in just left without you.

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE LEAVE OUR FLESH BODIES BEHIND AND OUR ENERGY SOULS RECIEVES A SPIRIT BODY. That is what He trying to say.

Couldn't have put it better myself sir. What is that nut on about...opening the door to evil spirits.

Hell is a real place. Not just a metaphor for pain

Iskcon. The hare Krsna movement is the real deal. All you Nde'ers are missing that beautiful boat. You saw so much but your not looking further. There's so much more than the small slice of the truth you saw.

Jesus is the Only way to Heaven. Please If your Reading this Never Forget this. God is Real and Jesus is his true and Only Son. Find Jesus and I Promise You, you will find True Love and Happiness in one’s Soul. Peace be with all God’s Children. Amen!!!

ha ha ha ha...

The wages of sin is death, buddha did not die for our sins! Jesus said broad is the way that leads to destruction: "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it!" Matthew 7:13-27

The only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ

Most incredibly tedious speaker I’ve ever heard. He says “ah” about a million times and takes about 10 minutes to say what could be said in one

Only the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse us of sin, and that can only happen when we belong to Him. Hell fire whether real or metaphorical, cannot cleanse us of our sin. Jesus taught that Hell is the place of torment the eternal abode of uncleansed unforgiven sinners, Satan, and demons. And Jesus being the only begotten Son of God, who declared that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Light trumps all others, whether the Dali Lama, the Pope, or any other religious leader. Jesus also taught that in the end times there would be great deception, and the teachings today that advocate that there are many ways to salvation and eternal life in heaven is that great deception.

Uhhhh... lol probably said about 700 times

I USUALLY ALWAYS CLICK ON THE ELDERLY PEOPLES NDE BECAUSE I FEEL THAT SINCE THEY ARE CLOSE TO DEATH THEY MOST LIKELY WOULD BE TELLING THE TRUTH TO BE RIGHT WITH THE LORD SO THAT THEY MAY GO TO HEAVEN BUT THIS GENTLEMAN IS EXTREMELY CONFUSED AND IT MAKES ME FEEL SAD THAT HE DOSENT KNOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BEFORE HE LEAVES THIS WORLD BECAUSE JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN AND THAT IS THE REAL TRUTH THAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW..I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT HE KNOWS THE LORD SOMEHOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE 😔😔😔😔

He doesn't know anything about the matters he's talking seemingly so knowledgeably. We only think we know some facts about our existence, after life and God but we'll only ever know as much as we are allowed to know. More we will know, more we will realise how little we know. Simply, there's no point waisting one's life on this. We should concentrate on helping each other, on eradication of diseases and making the absolute best from everything we have on this planet. We should ban all wars, there should be no such thing as war crime as war IS crime!! What will take to get our brains reprogrammed to understand such a simple concept?

Dr..Regarding your response...I already knew that, that was who you hear..but I PRAY to the ALMIGHTY LORD OF LORDS , KING OF KINGS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF!!!! THAT YOU WILL SEE HIM AND YOU WILL KNOW HIM PERSONALLY IN YOUR HEART AND YOU WILL BEG FOR REPENTENCE FOR PLAYING WITH THE DEVIL AND HIS FOOLISHNESS IN THIS WORLD FOR A MOMENTARY GAIN...BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE..YOU.DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME DR..I AM SPEAKING FROM MY HEART TO YOU..JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRUE HAPPINESS BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION ON THIS EARTH..AND.YOU COULD GO AT ANY MOMENT...PLEASE I BEG YOU...JUST ASK THE LORD JESUS IF HE'S REAL...HE'LL.SHOW YOU HE IS...PLEASE DON'T LET THE DEVIL FOOL YOU LIKE THIS.....WHERE TALKING ABOUT ETERNITY HERE...AND I HAVE DID MY RESEARCH.AS WELL AS.MY.OWN TRUE EXPERIENCES..AND ETERNITY IS REAL.. VERY REAL!!!!!!! I HOPE TO SEE YOU IN HEAVEN SOON DR...:):):)

Of course there is no more Death. After Jesus Christ arose from the dead, he took the "Keys to Death and the Grave" away from Satan. And at that time He Defeated Death and the Grave. This is not to say there is no consequence for living a sinful/evil life, and UNbelief in the Salvation of Jesus Christ. He says: "No one comes to the Father except through Me." So where God is Not, there is Darkness and Hell Fire forever. Regretfully, mankind still tries to put his own beliefs and superstition into life and death. Jesus Christ said "The worlds Sin is UNbelief in Me." John 16:9

Buddhism is a empty shell. I find its tenets useless. You cannot have reincarnation without some form of teleological direction, a judging organiser. The soul's existence seems inevitable. Yet, we may know nothing or deceived into believing anything.

People should not meditate. It is like opening the door to evil spirits.

Biblical death is eternal separation from God. People who turn from God go to hell in the compartment of like offenders and never see heaven.

Transmogrifies huh...... AND There's definitely no DEATH HUH...... this Guy says nothing and his own analogies are nonsence

John 3.3 Romans 5.5 Romans 8.9 Romans 8.26. 1 John 5.18. unless you are born again you cannot see heaven. Hell is real and undescribable suffering, Jesus warned us of hell fire burning for eternity. Jesus is the only way to heaven. The road is narrow and few make it to heaven. Everything else will burn for eternity in hell. Totally deceived by Satan.

Go away please...take your fundamentalism somewhere else.

This does not sound Biblical. JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY AND TRUTH.