Why death is just an illusion - thought provoking video

the evidence thus far suggests that in the first few minutes after death consciousness is not annihilated whether it fades away afterwards we do not know but right after death consciousness is not lost is one of the great wonders of life what will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose you will find out it'll pose the next question to you what was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep that was when you were born I started getting depressed I thought what kind of purpose do I have to live I mean do you are you just here to live to die I mean is there not a purpose for me is there not a purpose in life and when you're ready to wake up you're going to wake up and if you're not ready you're gonna stay pretending that you're just a little poor little me I woke up and I suddenly got it I suddenly felt who is it that's aware that I'm thinking and suddenly I was thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom you suddenly see that there isn't a grain of dust in the whole universe that's in the wrong place do you understand completely absolutely totally what it's all about the experience you are having which you call ordinary everyday consciousness pretending you're not is that experience is exactly the same thing as it there's no difference at all I saw that I was bigger than what I do I was bigger than my body I was everything and everyone take us through what happens to you as you find yourself submerged underwater well I was submerged and the force of the water had me absolutely pinned to the front deck of the boat this is while you're under the water with no air with you you can't breathe here you're completely submerged and at that time I gave my life over to God and truly and sincerely ask that God's will be done and at that moment everything changed I was very calm and peaceful and felt great and I had this very physical sense of being held and comforted and reassured that everything would be fine regardless of whether I lived or died I was no longer a fragment of the universe I was the universe everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality the deep down basic whatever there is and you're all that only Oh pretending you know me now I understand why we die the reason we die is to give us the opportunity to understand what life's all about you and when you find that out you laugh yourself silly

Channel: theJourneyofPurpose TJOP

Views: 6,368,402

Rating: 4.8366098 out of 5

Keywords: tjop, consciousness, death, life, alan watts, Alan Watts, jim carrey, spiritual

Id: Zf8PWSQaEwY

Length: 4min 34sec (274 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 10 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/AfraidAsk]

I'm not saying the message of this video is definitely wrong; but if you base anything on near-death experiences and the like I think the chance of creating a pretty illusion for yourself is pretty high. The dying brain perhaps isn't the best organ to trust; and it seems more likely that the 'experience' of being dead is a post-hoc invention of the brain that happens when it is recovering rather than what happens when you are actually dead.

I'm not saying it's definitely not real; if you can believe it, then do so. But perhaps it's a better alternative to try to accept what seems certain about reality, and find your peace in that: We die, and we really have no clue what happens afterwards, if anything. Find meaning in living towards death, rather than towards an afterlife.