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mindfulness.substack.com
“I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness,” he told me. “It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.”
Alex Blasdel • The New Science of Death: ‘There’s Something Happening in the Brain That Makes No Sense’
Meditation teaches you how to disentangle yourself from the thought process. It is the mental art of stepping out of your own way, and that’s a pretty useful skill in everyday life.
Henepola Gunaratana • Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition
Ray Bradbury’s Greatest Writing Advice
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Sebastian Junger talks near-death experience in new book "In My Time of Dying"
youtube.comBig fan of Sebastian Junger and his (many) books - and have been waiting for this one for a few years now - a fascinating insight into the magic and mystery of near death experiences from a first person perspective (and from an avowed skeptic and materialist) - and quite possibly - what it may say about the weird window that opens - and ultimately - what may await us all.