Consciousness Minded™

A short Humanist animation about death, afterlife, and living in the here and now. Written & produced by the British Humanist Association, and narrated by Stephen Fry. Animated by Hyebin Lee. Thank you to Alom Shaha, Craig Duncan, Andrew Copson, and Sara Passmore That’s Humanism logo design by Nick Cousins www.nickcousins.co.uk http://www.humanism.org.uk Find out more about humanist funerals here:https://humanism.org.uk/ceremonies/no…   “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” ― Mark Twain Artwork “Lachrymose Lace 2011”, charcoal & pencil 57×40.2 cms by [More]

Alan Watts, popularizing Eastern philosophy to the Western world in a speech about our relationship to the universe. “Why don’t you really know what you want? Two reasons that you don’t really know what you want: #1 You have IT! #2 You don’t know yourself, because you never can. The Godhead is never an object of it’s own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn’t cut itself, fire doesn’t burn itself, light doesn’t illumine itself. It’s always an endless mystery to itself.” – Alan Watts “That which IS the Knower, the Ground of All knowledge, is never Itself an object of [More]