No One Here Gets Out Alive (The Death Episode)

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

Religion & Spirituality, Trance, Mythology, Culture, Society & Culture, Shamanism, Arts, Justice, Entheogens, Spirituality, Cosmology, Art, History

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Death is universal, an undeniable fact of existence that every single one of our ancestors faced, just as we will. So mythic traditions around the world are full of stories of death. Many initiatory rituals directly enact death, taking the initiate through a process of dying while alive. For Ancient Egyptians and Tibetan Tantrikas, death was not something to run from, but something to actively embrace, as acolytes regularly plunged into the intermediary state. Yet modern culture tries to run ...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,
0:10.2	currents and trends through a mythic lens.
0:13.6	The podcast where we explore an ever-changing world and our lives in it
0:18.1	through the lens of myth, story, and imagination.
0:26.8	The Emerald.
0:28.6	All that's happening on this green jewel in space. Good morning. We're all going to die.
0:46.7	There's no getting around it.
0:48.5	If you're listening to this podcast and you're a human being, both of which are fair assumptions, then at some point in
0:57.2	some way or other, you are going to pass on. As Sogiel Rimpichet once wrote, quote,
1:04.4	what is born will die, what has been gathered will be dispersed, what has been accumulated
1:10.6	will be exhausted, what has been accumulated will be exhausted.
1:12.3	What has been built up will collapse.
1:14.8	And what has been high will be brought low.
1:20.7	And that pretty much sums it up, right?
1:24.8	That's a universal law.
1:26.7	No one here in the immortal words of Jim Morrison gets out alive.
1:31.9	Last time I checked, the mortality rate is 100%. Exercise regularly, eat sensibly, die anyway, says Bill
1:40.8	Bryson. And of course, we all know this, right? We all know in some kind of conceptual
1:47.0	far-off way that this is the trajectory that we're all on. This is the way. If there's one way
1:53.7	it is to existence, it's that all things must pass. We know this, but we can go about our lives
1:59.8	for the most part, not really thinking about it,
2:02.4	keeping the rude reality of our assured demise comfortably at bay.
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