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Death to Life and Life to Death

By Charles Eisenstein

Life and death are not the opposites the modern mind has made them to be. In this presentation I'll explore how death enlivens life, through means compatible with established scientific reality, and in ways outrageous to established scientific reality.

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50:00 – FREE

Dying to Live: Evolution Through Recycling

With Elisabet Sahtouris

Let’s start with Anaximander, who said everything forming in Nature incurs a debt which it must repay so that other things may form, which I see as the essence of evolution and a fascinating take on Dying to Live.
1:16:00 – FREE

Die Wise While There is Still Such a Thing as Wisdom

With Stephen Jenkinson

Learning the skills of dying occurs in the course of living deeply and well.
43:00 – FREE

Evidence of the Afterlife

With Jeffrey Long

Dr. Long has investigated thousands of near-death experiences (NDEs) with the results of his research published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.
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With Chris Fields

All of our ancestors and most of our relatives are immortal. We aren't. How come?
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Time of the 6th Sun: Toltec Teachings on Life, Death and Transformation

With Brenda Salgado

Brenda weaves traditional medicine, Buddhism, mindfulness, Toltec energy medicine and ancient calendar teachings to help others understand the times we are in as humanity.
55:00 – FREE

Waking Up From the Illusion of Death

With Deepak Chopra

Deepak shares his reflections on Death and shows us how coming to terms with our own beliefs about it can liberate us.
39:00 – FREE

The Blossoming of Consciousness

With Peter Russell

We are living through the most exciting and most challenging times in human history, if not the history of planet.
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Death: The End of Self-Improvement

With Joan Tollifson

Instead of denying aging, avoiding death, or fantasizing about some after-life for “me”, Joan points to fully embracing the total disintegration and loss of control that growing old and dying—and living and loving and being awake—actually entails.
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Reclaiming the Ancient Art of Death Midwifery

With Jerrigrace Lyons

Imagine the opportunity to transform your own view of death, diminish your fears and re-frame your relationship to living and dying.
1:15:00 – FREE

Death is Always Unprecedented

With Bayo Akomolafe

Modern dreams of death and dying are deeply "humanistic", tethered to a vision of the self as independent and removed from "nature".
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Our Unborn, Undying Nature

With Rupert Spira

In his meetings Rupert explores the perennial non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions.
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Dying Into Life

With Frank Ostaseski

Caring for people who are dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply alive experience. It often challenges our most basic beliefs.
57:00 – FREE

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

With Katie Mack

Modern cosmology — the study of the nature and evolution of the cosmos itself — has allowed physicists to explain the history of the Universe from the first tiny fraction of a second until today. But what’s next?
56:00 – FREE

Guidance for Living & Dying: Entering the Bardo

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Our ability to meet each moment in life with awareness benefits us immensely at the time of death.
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Going to the Edge: Exploring Death and Radical Resiliency During the Apocalypse

With Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation.
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Heart-break is Heart-Opening — The Gift of Grief

With Unmani

Heart-break is painful. There is no way around that. The loss of a loved one is devastating. It breaks you down. It tears you apart. The life that you thought you were living is no more. The person you thought you were, has died with your loved one.
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Finding an Ally in Death

With Joanna Macy

In our world right now there are economic and political and surveillance systems that need help in dying.
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Finding Life through Death

With Alua Arthur

How does one choose to walk closely to the dying every day?
45:00 – FREE

Dying Before Death

With Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez

In the Sufi tradition, there is a saying, “Die before death.” For Sufis, this is an exhortation to befriend death and the process of letting go as a daily spiritual practice.

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