immortality in the morning

Painting by Alex Grey

PSA: The most powerful hallucinogenic drug around - DMT - affectionately referred to as “the spirit molecule,” occurs naturally in the human body at death.

Why? This remains a mystery.
Some speculate it supports the journey between worlds, so to speak.

As Ram Dass shared: “People ask, ‘Do you believe that there is continuity after death?’ And I say, ‘I don’t believe it. It just is.’ That offends my scientific friends to no end. But belief is something you hold on to with your intellect. My faith in the continuity of life has gone way beyond the intellect. Belief is a problem because it is rooted in the mind, and in the process of death, the mind crumbles. Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.”

While this may be so, and perhaps you even disagree, let’s come together over the words of a wise elder Buddhist nun I met several years ago in India:

“If you don’t meditate on - or at the very least contemplate - your own immortality first thing in the morning, you will waste the entire day.”