# S2E27: Unlearning Our Fear of Death Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-telepathy-tapes-7650583/s2e27-unlearning-our-fear-of-death Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-telepathy-tapes-7650583/s2e27-unlearning-our-fear-of-death.md Podcast: [The Telepathy Tapes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-telepathy-tapes-7650583) Published: 2026-04-29T07:07:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/c4u9TdQ5gsDmCq9TETNl/mgln.ai/e/213/rss.art19.com/episodes/c640e315-342d-417b-a53f-f8e3a30687cc.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/c4u9TdQ5gsDmCq9TETNl/mgln.ai/e/213/rss.art19.com/episodes/c640e315-342d-417b-a53f-f8e3a30687cc.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-telepathy-tapes-7650583/episodes/s2e27-unlearning-our-fear-of-death Duration seconds: 1854 ## Resource In this episode of Talk Tracks , Ky Dickens sits down with Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Lynette Wallworth, whose near-death experience at age nine reshaped her understanding of reality, belonging, and what it means to die. That experience set her on a lifelong journey that led her to Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, Mexico, and Australia, where death is not feared, but understood as part of an ongoing cycle of existence. Through these relationships, she began to question a core assumption of Western culture: is our fear of death inherent, or has it been learned? Drawing from her upcoming documentary Edge of Life , Wallworth shares stories from psilocybin-assisted end-of-life trials, where patients facing terminal illness report vivid, often life-altering experiences that dissolve their fear of dying. These accounts of reunion, continuity, and peace mirror both ancient traditions and emerging scientific inquiry. What if the greatest barrier to understanding death is not the unknown but what we’ve forgotten? -------- Join  The Telepathy Tapes Backstage Pass  to get ad-free episodes, never-before-heard interviews, behind-the-scenes documentary footage, and access to our private Discord community. This is your invitation to come closer. To help shape what’s next. To be more than a listener… to be a  co-creator  of this paradigm shift. So if you’ve felt moved, if you’ve felt seen, if you’ve felt the call— subscribe today  and join us:  thetelepathytapes.supercast.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-telepathy-tapes-7650583/episodes/s2e27-unlearning-our-fear-of-death/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-telepathy-tapes-7650583/s2e27-unlearning-our-fear-of-death.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.