DUST

“For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

Enclothed in flesh, in-carnated, our bodies are subject to the organic cycles of life, decay and decomposition. But the idea that consciousness ends with death, that it is a product of, or housed in the brain and therefore dies with the body, is a conclusion that is very much up for questioning.

In psychedelic experiences or meditation, realms of existence beyond the ordinary can be experienced, and awareness can be divested of personal identity – experienced as infinite, egoless, “divine.” Reports of near-death experiences abound and wisdom literatures across cultures describe in detail the states of being after death.