Episode 9 described what appears at the moment of death.For the unprepared consciousness, the clear light flashes and is gone before recognition is possible.This episode answers the question that…
Tibet says that at the moment of death, before any threshold is crossed, before any destination is reached, before any journey begins, something appears. Something that was present throughout the…
Socrates argued his way to equanimity in the face of death.Few could follow him there. The Socratic path demanded decades of disciplined practice, a gradual loosening of the mind from the body,…
Egypt built the most elaborate preparation system for death in the ancient world.Greece looked at that system and asked whether the preparation could happen differently. Whether a person could arrive…
Osiris died, returned, and became the lord of the dead. The Duat is a traversable landscape with regions, gates, guardians, and differentiated destinations. The worthy continue. The unworthy face…
Sumer stared at death and offered the feast.Egypt looked at that answer and built the pyramids.Something drove an entire civilization to organize its greatest architectural achievements, its most…
Four episodes into Sumer and the full architecture of their death cosmology stands complete.Kur is real. The gidim diminish in the dust. Gilgamesh crossed the waters of death and came back carrying…
Episode 1 established what Kur is. Dust. Shadow. The permanent residence of the dead, offering nothing in the way of continuation or reward.Episode 2 followed the first man who refused that answer.…
The first recorded hero in human literature is a man who watched his best friend die and fell completely apart. He is a man who then walked to the edge of the world to argue with the gods about it.He…
Series IntroductionEvery civilization that has ever existed has had to answer one question. What happens when you die?This series is a survey of those answers. Moving across five thousand years and…
