What happens after we die? It’s one of the fundamental questions that drives all human interest in religion, philosophy, and science.

But while it might not conform to strict materialism, we actually do have a huge body of evidence about what the so-called afterlife might look like. You’ve heard of near death experiences, but you might not know how rigorously they’ve been studied. There are thousands of documented cases that reveal remarkably consistent patterns.

So that’s what’s up for today — NDEs, afterlife cosmologies, how the James Webb Space Telescope is breaking Big Bang theory, and what the handprint of God might look like to someone trying to build a religion.

Oh, and a few hours before we started recording, I heard about Robert Monroe’s visit to the afterlife, so we talk about that, too.

In other words, if you can only listen to one more podcast before you die, you could do worse than this one.

Highlights:

Growing up Mormon meant growing up with a rich afterlife cosmology

NDE stories as religious confirmation bias

Ancestors and experiences with people who’ve passed on

People get too comfortable with their pictures of reality in both science AND religion

Is the James Webb Space Telescope breaking the Big Bang theory? (that Kurzgesagt video)

In every generation, you can find prominent scientists who say we’ve figured pretty much everything out, right before some major paradigm collapses

Christian Wiman: “If you believe at 50 what you believed at 15, then you have not lived, or have denied the reality of your life” (from My Bright Abyss)

The large and rigorously studied body of NDE evidence (Jeffrey Long’s work, in particular)

What Robert Monroe saw in his trip to the afterlife (ht Jordan Crowder’s podcast, and Ultimate Journey)

Hell as a lower-dimensional experience

Can a higher-dimensional God manifest as a lower-dimensional being? Would that lower-dimension being not be God?

Bad branding for universal consciousness

Samuel Norton’s Come as You Are, and the hotel analogy for final judgment

And in the epilogue:

Why God might call most Christian creeds “an abomination”

The real definition of moral courage

How social media is like carbon monoxide, lulling doom-scrollers into the sleep of death.

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