No fear of death

If there were one thing I wish I could take out of all the psychedelic work I'd done for all those years, if there were one thing I could just reach into my heart and give to people, it would be: please lose your fear of death. If you're afraid of dying, you have...

I think it's great. If you do your work well, one thing that happens is you lose all fear of death. Once you transition several times into that reality, you know, in your bones, from your own experience, that death is not an end but the end of an incarnational cycle. There's nothing to...

I've always told my children that it's a great life, and in the end, you get to die. Death is graduation, coming home. If there's one thing I'd give to people, it's to give up the fear of death. Death is joy and celebration. Most people experience it as a rush into the arms...

I want to be careful, because I don't want to frame my work in terms of the dynamics of spiritual awakening. That phrasing, to die before we die so that we do not die when we die, is kind of really oriented around the dynamics of spiritual awakening. In my sense, in my work,...

Every time we die, all spiritual traditions tell us no one truly dies; we transition into a different reality level. I'm not making light of death or trivializing it, but affirming this deeper insight that everything we are survives the death of this body. At the end of every lifetime, we return to where...

It's a wonderful joy and mercy of life that they can't stop you from dying. The older you get, you get one foot closer to joy and ecstasy. Cryogenics and freezing the body is so terribly sad. I taught near-death episode research for years in my courses, along with reincarnation and other things. Students...

Thank you. I become more whole speaking about these things; it’s what I was designed to do. There aren't many places for such a conversation. Thank you. If there were a gift from my experiences, it would be letting go of the fear of death. If you're afraid of death, you have life turned...

If there were maybe only one thing, if I were to point to one thing that I wish I could give people, it would be to lose their fear of death. I wish I could reach into my heart and give you this absolute freedom from any fear of death. Because if you fear...

Yeah, it cuts the legs right out from under you. It correlates with the idea of existence driven by blind chance. If there's no existential significance, you only get one shot. Make the best of it, but when you die, you're gone anyway, so who cares? That's such a demeaning and counterintuitive philosophy of...

Let's look deeply into the future of this future human. Whatever transformation we're undergoing, we're giving birth to a new order of human capacity for however long it takes—hundreds of years, if needed. The human story doesn't stop; this is just a new platform for further development. We've evolved through suffering, which has been...

We have reasons to be afraid; we've neglected many critical responsibilities. But my deeper experiences show that the universe is profoundly wise, intelligent, and compassionate, though these aspects are not apparent on the surface. To see the universe's compassion, one must look deeply. Evil isn't external to the divine but part of how the...

We've passed the longest night of the year. We're coming into the beginning of the rising daylight in our lives, just a short cycle, just a six-month cycle, and then the cycle of darkness will begin again. This challenge that humanity is facing—it's a huge challenge. We'll make it, but that itself is not...

Yes, yes. We all kind of suffer from the carryover of our culture's experience with psychedelics in the 1960s and all the negative press that psychedelics generated, or were generated around psychedelics, when the true story is really very different. Psychedelics in general, and LSD in particular, function as non-specific amplifiers and catalysts of...

It's a journey, and each phase was exciting in its own right. I don't have a favorite. Personally, the diamond Luminosity is profound. The story of the birth of the future human is significant, as it relates to reincarnation and humanity's trajectory. In one session, all my lives integrated, and this fusion ignited a...

It's a story of a journey, and every phase was an exciting adventure. I don't have a favorite per se. The diamond luminosity is, from my heart, the deepest dimension. The story of the birth of the future human, where reincarnation is taking humanity, is important. In one session, I experienced all my former...

It's not about the personal aspects of my journey but that these experiences are available for everyone. They provide insight into our lives' textures. I've enjoyed our conversation. Thank you for the opportunity.

The more experience I've collected, the more cautious I've become. I'm uncomfortable with people taking psychedelics in uncontrolled circumstances. You can quickly get over your head in socially or sensationally complicated settings, leading to trauma. Extreme caution is advisable, along with thorough research. There's a lot of literature on methodology coming out. A key...

Good morning, everybody. I've been told I have to remember to hold this mic close up to my face, so if I drop off, you just shoot your hand up and remind me it's a pleasure to be here with you. Today was Labor Day, I think Labor Day weekend when I was here...

Spiritual death, sometimes more profound than physical death, occurs in this work. Despite suffering, I sought to know the universe's structure. Not everyone needs this; it's intense and often terrifying. Yet, the fear of death evaporates because one understands they are a being who cannot truly die—only evolve. Once society embraces these truths, it...

I teach at a state university in Ohio. The prevalent worldview in universities today is secular humanism—material reductionism, flatland metaphysics, where the physical world is seen as the only real world, and talk of a world beyond is just fanciful speculation. In more progressive environments, there's still the perception that my students come with,...

For a variety of reasons, not everyone has the same deep experience. Ken hypothesizes that the meaning of near-death episodes can be best understood by studying those who have the deepest experience. He calls these "core NDEers," those who go right to the core. The fifth stage is going into the light, merging with...

There are many different psychedelics, so if we were to take this conversation down to a more precise level, we would have to discuss specific psychedelics and how they interact with consciousness. Generally, the category of drugs that we call psychedelics are consciousness amplifiers. They are amplifiers and catalysts of consciousness. They hypersensitize consciousness,...