Jeff Krasno

get at, I guess, what I might call the ultimate target of a spiritual life, which is freedom from the fear of death. Knowing that I am this intelligence animated for a certain period of time that I am this link in a continuous chain of captured sunlight and that Life as I know it, as circumscribed by these five senses, will be rounded with an ultimate sleep.

get at, I guess, what I might call the ultimate target of a spiritual life, which is freedom from the fear of death. Knowing that I am this intelligence animated for a certain period of time that I am this link in a continuous chain of captured sunlight and that Life as I know it, as circumscribed by these five senses, will be rounded with an ultimate sleep.

That my ability to be here and have this conversation with you is coterminous with the end of my life. But I also know that everything that makes me up, all of that nitrogen and oxygen and carbon and phosphorus and magnesium, that will all move on. That will all keep going. And in that sense, you never really die.

That my ability to be here and have this conversation with you is coterminous with the end of my life. But I also know that everything that makes me up, all of that nitrogen and oxygen and carbon and phosphorus and magnesium, that will all move on. That will all keep going. And in that sense, you never really die.

That my ability to be here and have this conversation with you is coterminous with the end of my life. But I also know that everything that makes me up, all of that nitrogen and oxygen and carbon and phosphorus and magnesium, that will all move on. That will all keep going. And in that sense, you never really die.

And I think this is really quite important and liberating because we are, as humans, sort of in like this very interesting, strange place in the course of our evolution, whereby some miraculous, fortuitous combination of atoms in the brain, I suppose, that we have consciousness, right?

And I think this is really quite important and liberating because we are, as humans, sort of in like this very interesting, strange place in the course of our evolution, whereby some miraculous, fortuitous combination of atoms in the brain, I suppose, that we have consciousness, right?

And I think this is really quite important and liberating because we are, as humans, sort of in like this very interesting, strange place in the course of our evolution, whereby some miraculous, fortuitous combination of atoms in the brain, I suppose, that we have consciousness, right?

That we can sit here and find little vessels of words to capture thoughts and share them with each other and really enjoy it and be here and Go outside and look at the marvelous hills of Topanga and enjoy the miraculous beauty of a sunset, etc. That there is a feeling of what it's like to be you and me. And we call that sometimes qualia.

That we can sit here and find little vessels of words to capture thoughts and share them with each other and really enjoy it and be here and Go outside and look at the marvelous hills of Topanga and enjoy the miraculous beauty of a sunset, etc. That there is a feeling of what it's like to be you and me. And we call that sometimes qualia.

That we can sit here and find little vessels of words to capture thoughts and share them with each other and really enjoy it and be here and Go outside and look at the marvelous hills of Topanga and enjoy the miraculous beauty of a sunset, etc. That there is a feeling of what it's like to be you and me. And we call that sometimes qualia.

But the kind of double-edged side of that consciousness sword is that I also have... the awareness that I'm going to die, and you are going to die, and everyone that I love is going to die. And this mortality awareness has created paroxysms of anxiety throughout human history.

But the kind of double-edged side of that consciousness sword is that I also have... the awareness that I'm going to die, and you are going to die, and everyone that I love is going to die. And this mortality awareness has created paroxysms of anxiety throughout human history.

But the kind of double-edged side of that consciousness sword is that I also have... the awareness that I'm going to die, and you are going to die, and everyone that I love is going to die. And this mortality awareness has created paroxysms of anxiety throughout human history.

And so waking up to some degree of our own impermanence, I think helps to sort of dull the sharper edge of that mortality anxiety.

And so waking up to some degree of our own impermanence, I think helps to sort of dull the sharper edge of that mortality anxiety.

And so waking up to some degree of our own impermanence, I think helps to sort of dull the sharper edge of that mortality anxiety.

I mean, how much of our human stress is based on our fear of death? I mean, quite a bit, right? Our whole relationship with nature, or I would say our hostile relationship with nature, has its provenance in our fear of death.

I mean, how much of our human stress is based on our fear of death? I mean, quite a bit, right? Our whole relationship with nature, or I would say our hostile relationship with nature, has its provenance in our fear of death.

I mean, how much of our human stress is based on our fear of death? I mean, quite a bit, right? Our whole relationship with nature, or I would say our hostile relationship with nature, has its provenance in our fear of death.