YOUR FEAR OF DEATH IS HOLDING YOU BACK

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EMBRACE DEATH, LIVE FULLY

The average age for a man in the bronze age was 18.

In the roman era it was 22

Heaven must’ve been beautiful then. Today it must look dreadful.

Men lived briefly, intensely, and heroically because the idea of death always felt close and present in one’s life.

Now, We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

we can survive 80 years without ever truly living.

The “People” of today live in a state of prolonged survival.

The fear of death stems from the fear of life, when you are prepared to die at any minute, then you can begin to live.

When you are not truly living, death feels like theft.

but When you are living fully, death feels like completion.

And yet, despite our extended lifespans, death terrifies us more than ever.

They say nothing is certain except death and taxes.

I would argue even taxes are negotiable if you know a guy who knows a guy in The Vrill Club. Just kidding. I love you IRS ;)

Anyway, Death is the biggest fear for humans, yet it is the one thing we can be sure will happen.

Death is non negotiable.

Isn’t is strange?

The only thing we are guaranteed is the one we worry most about.

So why are we so afraid of it?
What is it about death that seems so scary?

Studying near death experiences (NDEs) is fascinating because they seem to extinguish all fear of death.

Many people who have clinically “died” and come back have reported that death is painless.

Even more, they say it feels like a relief from pain.

Many describe floating above their body, observing from a higher vantage point with 360 degree perception.

In the Hermetic tradition, Death is described as;

Even in traumatic deaths, many report A deep calm, a Loss of fear, and Feeling embraced & Feeling “home”

People have even explicitly described meeting loved ones during their near death experience.

Their communication is often described as telepathic or instantaneous.

even more, they usually report meeting only those who had already died, not living relatives.

There are even documented cases where someone meets a relative they didn’t know had died yet, and later they learn that the person had in fact passed.

All of this is to say that death is not to be feared.

In fact, we should be excited for it.

Death is the ultimate equalizer. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Ancient cultures would revere death as a doorway back into the spirit world.

They did not hide from it like we do. They embraced it fully.

Not only did they embrace physical death, they heavily embraced symbolic death.

Yet another thing that modernity has avoided.

The warrior, in ancient societies, would go through a symbolic death (a right of passage) before becoming a man.

Today, we avoid this too. We avoid risk. We avoid change. We avoid the unknown, and we embrace comfort.

And so we remain unfinished.

Modern society hides death.


We sterilize it.
We cover the bodies.
We push it behind hospital curtains and closed caskets.

Then we mourn as if something had been stolen.

Death is to be embraced.

For my funeral, don’t be sad. I want you guys to come and play deadmau5 and celebrate my life.

Mourning death implies an end, but death is only a new beginning.

We live in a dense material realm.

Modern man has been cut off so far from the spirit world he cannot grasp that there is more beyond the physical.

Death challenges this materialism and the ongoing myth that we will be saved by technology.

Death, if truly embraced, implores us to live in the present. Which is where God is.

If you knew you would die in a year, would you act differently? Would you forgive? would you stop putting off your dreams?

What if death was only a week away? What if it was tomorrow?

Everyone can agree they would spring into action making the most of their last days.

To contemplate death daily is not to become obsessed with dying, but rather create a passion for life.

Stop fighting the inevitable.

We are all here for a short time in the grand scheme of things.

Contemplate death voluntarily, so life does not have to shock you into true awareness.

Do not let this scare you.

The question is not whether you will die.

The question is whether you will live before you do.

BY @THEVRILLER