Alex O'Connor
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2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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Reintegrate feeling into your life.
That's probably a helpful starting point.
Sure, okay.
That my friends and family love me.
That we can have certainty about the will of the creator of the universe.
And that it's engaged in the peculiarities of human affairs and human political affairs.
That it comes to an end.
Well, there are a few answers to that.
You said, why does death feel so unnatural, which is a weird way of putting it.
You think it's a weird way?
For many people, death is a part of nature.
But it's interesting to hear you say unnatural, because there are philosophical traditions.
If you're someone who believes that life exists after death, you'll either believe that because you think that we're going to heaven, and this mortal realm is sort of a purgatory realm of sorts.
Or maybe you think that we're all made of consciousness and we're all going to sort of reintegrate into Brahman.
Either way, that would mean that our true nature is Brahman.
for want of a better term right now, and that the divided physical biological selves that we currently inhabit are not our real selves.
This is one of the biggest teachings of Advaita Vedanta, is that your self is an illusion.
There is one self, the Atman, it's one self, and that Atman is the same thing as Brahman.
There's just one great big thing.
such that the thing that comes to an end when you die is not yourself, or rather it's the illusion of yourself, but it's not the self.
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