Excellent. I read Trungpa and Freemantle's translation back in the 70's, but also concurrently, Dr. Raymond Moody had just published Life After Life, his first book on NDE (Near Death Experience) and in almost every case, many of them were sudden deaths, some were not; the experiencer, in other words the person/s that died, did not go through anything like what is described is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They all speak and spoke about a profoundly deep Peace, Love, Contentment & irritation at having to come back. It's now 2022 and the NDE community is larger than ever with many disbelieving scientists and medical doctors among them, who, were once quite skeptical of the NDE, considering it to be a Physiological/Psychological chemical "brain fart". I'm still a Tibetan Buddhist and this was a great presentation, but on this issue of the Death Experience and Bardos, I don't know that the Tibetan's got it right. I'll have to read the Dalai Lama's version.
Near death experience is near death and not truely dead. Thats why in Asia, they dont cremate their body till all signs of death appear. It usually taking few days after the body stops breathing.
At 76 your lecture is appreciated. Evens-Wentz was my first intro into the Book of the Dead and even before that a LSD instruction book based on EW by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, who later became Ram Das, a yogi. LSD projected one rather violently into the Bardo's. One could easily see the path (if the person's mind took that direction other than just looking for thrills) but it remained the task of walking the actual path and meditation for the duration of one's life...a brief 'seeing' was not enough. But without that Nuclear blast of LSD, my finding the dharma might have been considerably slower. God Bless Donald
Are these microdharmas also called qualia? May I also ask, what do you think of the theory of singularity? Can this be compared to Teilhard de Chardin's omega point? Thank you...
