Apparently, Tom Brokaw was diagnosed with a serious form of Melanoma over this past year. He wrote a memoir called My Lucky Life Interrupted. The book is a reflection of his experiences confronting his own mortality.

Do these terms truly describe the true mystery of life? Yet the term mortality zone got my attention and I wanted to think about it.

In the Judeo Christian tradition, immortality can only be achieved by accepting Jesus Christ as your savior. That is about as suffocating a definition as any I’ve ever considered.

In spiritual thought traditions, immortality is a birthright and a death right. It is a consciousness that exists beyond what we are experiencing in this present moment. Yet the present moment is the only thing that exists. If mortality exist in the future, is it possible that immortality is the only thing that exists in this present moment?

This is what today’s podcast is all about.