Weird things happen in the backyard of the Blitzow House.

This is so weird.

Wow. Hello everybody. Welcome to Bledso said so. I want to talk about the Tibetan book of the dead tonight.

And honestly, it was just going to be a general episode about the afterlife and

purgatory and my thoughts and beliefs on what happens next. And as I started getting deeper into

this, I realized there was so much intrigue with the Tibetan Book of the Dead that I decided

I wanted to narrow my focus on this. And maybe we could

even expand more in later episodes about other systems of death and the afterlife, like maybe the

Egyptian book of the dead or the book of coming forth by day. Also, maybe we can look into like the Catholic model of death and

purgatory and things like the divine comedy or popularly known as Dante's Inferno, because I think

that's a very interesting story. And we find in that, in my view, that there's a relation between specifically the divine

comedy and the description of navigating the circles of hell and what it's like being in the

layers of bardo according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead. So as I got to digging into this topic,

I thought it would be one episode and I realized it could be many episodes talking about

death and the transition of that passage into the afterlife. So I was like, oh, you know,

let's just start here and see where it goes. And I also found, I've actually been putting this off for a few months.

Alex had an idea two or three, maybe even three months ago that was like, we should do an episode

on purgatory. And I was like, I don't know if I'm ready for that. It's a great idea,

but I just don't know how it fits right now. So I kept pushing it back

and pushing it back and pushing it back. And I think, Alex, you wanted me to more or less,

at least acknowledge that we've been on a generational run since October, I believe, where

I haven't explicitly said this out loud on the show, but every topic we've done in the last, however many

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