Life is.

Death is not an experience, only an observation of withdrawal from a shell. Communication with the departed ("dead") is universally known.

The quest for meaning is a propulsion mechanism. The mind only a ladder. Once you embrace the stream of life nothing matters.

The mind is like a Gothic arch. Riding its ascending part makes the dream of the enlightenment. The horizon broadens, you learn new things, you improve methods, you make dazzling discoveries. From a species struggling for survival you turn into the dominant presence on the planet. Then you reach the crown of the arch and you have to show courage in exchanging the mind with a higher principle. If not, you are trapped in the downward part of the arch, turning from philosopher to a sophist, critic, and pompous academic.

Mass education is the silent pandemic of modern times. (Look what happened in Mass-achusetts...)