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0:00 In this video, I'm going to explain the afterlife. Now, what happens when we die is a question that's the focal point of many religions, philosophy, even science, poetry, literature. It's integral to many belief systems, the question of death. Now, we have such an unhealthy, disconnected relationship with death that it's now more a source of anxiety, fear, and heated debate from nihilism to Gnosticism. In many belief systems, they're motivated out of fear of punishment, out of the guilt of doing wrong, rather than the love of doing good. One of the things we have to understand is that what we call the physical and what we call the spiritual are the same thing. There's no separation between them.
0:45 All we are, the elements that compose us, come down to light and shade. And these forge our matter. These are constructed into nature. These are what the stars are. So, we're made of starlight, and we're made of shade. You might think of your shade as your soul or your spirit, even though, like I said, there's no separation between physical and spiritual. But, when you do die, your matter is going to break down, and you'll be recycled into nature. Your shade, however, is going to go on this dark road. And this road is part of a huge branching network that connects all the planets, all the stars, the entire cosmos, the entire universe together. And so, it's these roadways,
1:32 these pathways, these bridges. Your heart is going to weigh itself, and it's going to go along the path that it has accessed, that it has connected to. Although these lines of connection, these bridges, they are, in reality, they're just invisible to what we can normally perceive. Some people's shades are going to stay behind and offer support and wait for loved ones. They're going to be like an ancestral protector or guide. Some people are simply going to wander through the dark road. Others are going to join different stars. Maybe have a quiet paradise. Some are going to journey for years and then come back. And so you do have these decisions of whether you're going to come back to
2:18 Earth, whether you're going to join different stars, or whether you're going to go to a place of punishment, a place of torment. This hexagon in Saturn, for example, is a giant wall of flesh, pillars, and columns of flesh, of torment for wicked people. And the rings of Saturn are actually the one of the rivers of souls. Every single culture on Earth has described it the same way since time immemorial. So there's no need to have this fear or this debate over the afterlife. What we have are these branching pathways. And you decide where you're going to go. And nothing's necessarily permanent. Some people may journey for a while
3:03 and come back. Some people may just wander and explore. Some people are going to wait for loved ones and then go to a quiet paradise. Some people are just going to join the stars. And all cultures have said this. Still some people are going to stay on the dark road and lead people to safety or to different areas that they need to go to. Because some people are going to be wandering blind. Some people are going to get lost along the way. And still some people are going to wander off the road and be devoured by demons. Some people are going to fight evil spirits and never journey to the afterlife. They're going to stay there and simply be a protector. I'm going to present a variety of different sacred texts, inscriptions, and just information from different
3:49 belief systems and cultures that say the same thing. How we come from stars and we go back to stars upon our death. The pyramid texts are going to describe the king's ascension into the stars. And so, there are people that join stars, whether it's the sun or distant galaxies, or some people will even become a new star. We're going to see the Milky Way as this pathway, and this isn't a metaphor, it is the literal actual pathway, because the physical and spiritual aren't divided, they're not separate. Like I said, we're light and shade, and so these explanations and inscriptions on the afterlife, they're not just imagery and wishful thinking. Every single culture describes the same thing. They describe these
4:35 ropes, these bridges, these pathways that are branching and connect everything that are going to lead you into the stars. And let me move out of the way for a second. And we have the description of ladders. And in all these different cultures, you're seeing the road of souls, returning to the stars upon death, the spirits' road, the journey of souls across the Milky Way. And you could fill out hundreds of pages of information like this. I'm just pulling different bits so you can see some examples. Great serpent of the river, the halls of the gods, these are describing different aspects of the galaxy, of the cosmos. More descriptions of the afterlife, of the heavens, and the journey of souls. We have people when they die can become stars or join the stars in different
5:22 aspects of how they described it, whether it's chariots, whether it's a winding waterway, whether it's a path of golden dust, whether it's a river, whether it's a bridge. We're going to see descriptions of a pillar or a pole or a rope, and this is going to lead or guide or pull people into the direction of where their hearts have allowed them to go to, and where they choose to go to. Some people will go to the sun, some people will go to areas of torment and punishment. Some people will go into all different kinds of star ways or join the whirling of stars in the Milky Way. Here are some Orphic prayers. I am a child of earth and starry heaven. Or these plates found in Crete, where
6:07 again, they're talking about being part of the stars. We're coming from the stars because we're starlight, and that starlight creates shade, and that shade is your soul, and that shade will return to the place of its belonging. And they describe about which paths to take, where to go for different aspects of the afterlife. In a Mithraic solar ritual, they again describe being able to see this solar pole, this pipe, that's going to be part of that kind of world tree, those different bridges and roadways that connect the entire cosmos together. The Bushmen of Southern Africa are one of the absolute oldest cultures on earth. Their healing traditions have this dance that allows them to see that rope that connects to everything. Here
6:54 we have the rainbow serpent of Aboriginal Australian lore. You also have the Bifrost gate of Nordic lore. Here is some Tucano lore which describes the shade of the sun, the invisible counterpart of the sun, which provides these different kinds of energies. And once again, being able to see these threads, these lines of connectivity between the stars and us. And what's true for us is also true for the animals and all of nature. Everything comes from the stars, and everything can return to earth or to return to the stars. Mayan and Aztec lore regarding the passages of souls and the transformation into stars and so on. We all have this starlight in us, and that light casts shade, and that shade
7:40 is your soul. And all that we call physical, all the matter that we describe as physical, is merely the interaction and the relationship between that light and shade. That's what forges all of reality, all of matter. Here's some very esoteric Chinese mysticism describing all of these things again. Here are more of that very poetic and mystical descriptions. Very ancient practices of connecting to the stars and describing these strands, these branching pathways, as well as descriptions of the shade itself. You can pause or screenshot to read if you want more of this sacred scripture regarding these celestial connections. The language of weaving, of cords, of threads, of bridges, of pathways, of roads, of rivers is found
8:25 all over the world in different cultural contexts.
