“For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.”
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There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
