Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer and honored guest Robert Thurman (still on the planet)

We had our first guest on our podcast — first guest that is still on the planet that is!

Robert Thurman.

I had the good fortune to take a class with Robert Thurman at Columbia University back in the 90’s. As noted in my talk at the Conference of Living and Dying recently via Tibet House, I was working for Charles Grodin on his talk show when I audited this class in philosophy. It led me to study Tibetan philosophy — Buddhism in particular, which I find to be a peerless philosophy.

Robert is an author of many excellent books about Buddhist philosophy, including but not limited to “Inner Revolution” and beautiful translation of the “Bardo Thodol” in the “Tibetan Book of the Dead.” His book “Circling the Sacred Mountain was instrumental in my own trip to Mt. Kailash with him in 2004. I’ve had the privilege to travel with him and his wife Nena to Ladakh, and then later a trip across Tibet where I filmed the journey for a documentary on YouTube “Journey Into Tibet with Robert Thurman.” https://youtu.be/MqbG_RY4eiY

Robert is one of the wisest, most insightful humans I’ve met — it’s a privilege for him to appear on our podcast. He recently became aware of this podcast during my talk for the Conference, so it was his suggestion he come on to see if he could communicate with…