On Death and God (Full Audio Book)

Is your life worth more than your will to live?

Follow John on a mind-bending quest through Hell to slay the gods and save everything he ever loved.

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Chapter time stamps:

Intro – 00:00

Dear Reader – 05:43

The Dream – 07:35

Welcome to the Machine – 16:50

Dead and Dying – 43:16

Life and Living – 50:29

The Storm – 01:26:31

All The Way Down – 01:38:56

Under the Stars – 02:06:09

The Desert of High Noon - 02:12:43

The Forbidden Fruit – 02:22:06

Into the Abyss – 02:32:28

Ultimatums of a Dead Man – 02:47:43

The Souls of the Damned – 02:52:37

Eternity – 03:06:31

The Labyrinth – 03:19:21

The Eternal Flame – 03:44:27

The Light – 04:03:01

The Serpent – 04:13:13

The Man Who Killed God – 04:20:05

On Death and God – 04:23:23

Epilogue – 04:38:27

Notes from the Editor – 04:39:39

Referenced works (not read in audio book--only in written version):

1. Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, aphorism 125 “The Madman”
2. Christopher Ryan in his podcast, Tangentially Speaking
3. Netflix TV series, Black Mirror
4. Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self
5. Ted Kaczynski’s “Industrial Society and its Future”
6. Dr. Chris Ryan’s Civilized to Death
7. Camus’ The Stranger
8. There is a very large number of translations of the Bhagavad-Gita that currently exist. “I am come as Death, destroyer of worlds.” Is said in many different ways across these translations.
9. See Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil quote, “The good man sees the whole world as evil.” Also see Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael.
10. See Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols, “How the ‘Real World’ at last became a myth”
11. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
12. See Sturgill Simpson’s “Turtles All the Way Down” from Metamodern Sound in Country Music.
13. Twilight of the Idols , “The Four Great Errors”.
14. Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha
15. Philip Mainlander’s concept of the universe being the heat death of God
16. Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”
17. Nietzsche’s “The Three Metamorphoses” from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
18. Sturgill Simpson’s “Make Art Not Friends” from Sound and Fury
19. See history of the first assassins: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/assassins
20. Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
21. Nietzsche’s quote, “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” From Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Mentioned Songs

“Come as You Are” by Nirvana

“A Horse with No Name” by America

“The Trip” by Still Corners