Note 01: Death is actually very welcoming. No one says, ‘welcome!’ but the overall vibe is warm, positive and good.

Note 02: Once within death I found that the line we draw between life and death is tenuous at best. In my meditations, I would quickly pass through the eye of a dying animal into a vast and distant galaxy teeming with strange life, then into a realm of just voices singing, and then suddenly find myself back in the living forest again, but here drawn out with vast clusters of continuously inscribing lines. It’s clear: life and death are inextricably entwined forever, and the connections are profligate, simultaneous, instantaneous and never-ending. It is also evident that one must learn to navigate this realm in the same way one must learn how to ride a bike or play a video game.

Note 03: Time and place are completely different to our lived experience – one seems able to instantly travel anywhere and to any time in the deep past, ever=present or far future. As if one’s thought can become as wide as all existence and then contract to the size of an atom. But further, and more interestingly, it’s as if the 13.7 billion years old that scientists estimate our universe to be could take place in an instant, yet is only unfurled as such a huge space of time because it’s pleasing. I understand that this might seem a strange idea, but that’s what I got from my experience! Time unfurls because it is pleasing to do so (though I wouldn’t claim to know who it is pleasing for, and why).

Note 04: It is peculiar just how quickly things happen in death. It is in fact a seemingly far more ‘dynamic’ seeming place than our world of the living. Though our realm can of course be very hectic seeming indeed, the foundation of death is far more slippery, rapid and changing. But this could also be down to what I describe in Note 02 about one needing to learn how to navigate death!