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Posts on ‘metaphysics’
“Overcoming death”
22 Jun 2010Dear Gloria,
Thanks for your reflections on Charles’ blog entry “Sad – ha ha”. May I respond….
In my own comments on this blog entry I was talking about overcoming death itself – not our fear of it.
For the vast majority, claiming to have overcome the fear of it would be a pure lie. If we could [...]
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“How did we get to this stage?” – a comment on my last blog (Death matters – no kidding!) from Charles of The Good Funeral Guide, whose excellent blog I often visit.
Indeed, how did we get to the point that one actually has to be reminded that death still matters?
This is obviously a complex question, [...]
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Death matters – no kidding!
1 Jun 2010What a sign of the times, that giving this name to my blog should not be ridiculous!
For what could have been more obvious in every other epoch of history that death mattered! Of all things. That it mattered as much as being born, as getting married, as choosing a career, as making a living. In [...]
Death as Liberation
23 Feb 2010In my humble opinion, this famous contemporary vision of death’s “value” mostly misses the mark.
But with a minor correction, it gains profound new meaning. From the soul’s perspective, death can be seen as a liberation – hence its pricelessness.
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On Dying – “At the Customs House”
28 Jan 2010What follows is perhaps the best contemporary speculation on the awesome passage from Life to Death – by Ernst Jünger, from his “Das Abenteuerliche Herz” (The Adventurous Heart”). My own unofficial translation. Enjoy…!
“Death resembles a foreign continent about which no-one who travels there can send back reports. Its secrets engage us so intensely that its [...]
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