Chris Cornell Talks About Dreams, Death and Layne Staley

In this video Cornell talks about his vivid dreams (some from hard drugs like DMT, etc.) and trying to distinguish what is reality compared to the dream state. he states; 'our experience here is intrinsically worldly and whatever else is going on out there nobody knows and it has little resemblance to what is going on here', 'if we were dead and spiritual balls of light we wouldn't need to communicate with words or know how to open doors', 'with the exception of mysticism or religion everything that occupies our thoughts is earthly and if we're not in an earthly place (after death) the earthly experience becomes useless in existence after death', he also talks about seeing Layne Staley from alice in chains in a dream along with other people he's known.

It's interesting he mentions spiritual balls of light because this is what UFO sitings are, occultists have also described these spiritual balls of light, they have been filmed and documented. They are even portrayed in movies, even classics like 'it's a wonderful life'.

This thought about the afterlife and what matters is clearly expressed in 1 Cor 3:10-15. Some day we will all die, this world will be gone, our existence will be eternal in a spiritual realm, in heaven or hell. with all the competing things for our attention and time, having the spiritual forethought as Cornell has on death and afterlife is the most important thing one can do. Ecc 7:4 'A wise person thinks a lot about death, while a fool thinks only about having a good time.' This sums up Cornell's body of work to me, and it seem to be more messages about Christ the later in his career he got, despite his problems with addiction and depression.

1 Cor 3:10-15
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled[b] master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.