We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2024 source ↗
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View all 53 →Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
Earthly life is merely the infancy of our soul. What comes after physical death is, I imagine, like returning home.
You reach a certain point in life and suddenly know a lot of dead people, and I’ve noticed you don’t stop getting to know people who are dead. Those relationships continue and I like that.
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View profile →Fear of flying.
When my daughter and my stepdaughters were feeling unhappy, we used to pretend to unlock something in their heart and then pour golden liquid into them, and it always warmed them. For me, that’s what love feels like – a warm feeling inside.
I can’t bear people who lie.
Nothing: I live in the now.
A travel agent.
All of them. I’m not someone who can sit down and read – I wish I could.
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