What Happens When We Die?

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First law -The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but can be neither created nor destroyed.

It always interested me how the big bang theory contradicted Newtons laws since how do you create the universe out of a singularity?

The BBT has a few holes

Yep way above my pay grade. But having random objects floating around space-time colliding to form universes or metaverses opens yet another questions...where the heck do Branes come from??? it seems set up one theory and you need another to explain the first one

once again, my army time introduced me to another useful concept, "echelons beyond reality." or to borrow from the bible, "my father's house" (containing countless "mansion" sub-realms) which is bible-talk for the metaverse that some would call god's abode or heaven, a master metaphysical universe from which countless daughter physical universes spring forth. there are some who say there are even realms above the metaverse, that it in turn is one of countless daughter metaverses in a never-ending progression. there is a german writer named Jurgen Ziewe who wrote about this in two books, "vistas of infinity- how to enjoy life when you are dead" and "multidimensional man."

an infinite loop

This is what's driven a wedge between me and some of the teachings in Builders of the Adytum as well as AMORC. My way of seeing humanity is much more in line with John Gray's 2002 book 'Straw Dogs: On Humans and Other Animals'.

We live on destructive competition, and solipsism, because life is a permanent Darwinian war where everyone's genes, to them, are infinitely important and everyone who might compete for the same things they want has to be smashed - thus malignant narcissism and Darwinian natural selection success go hand in hand.

My goal anymore is to just do my best to stay sane and get through life with whatever net positive impact I can, and anymore just expect life to be a struggle for survival until it ends. If I find any peace in my senior / retired years it'll only be if I'm not seen as important enough to bother or don't have anything that anyone else desperately believes they deserve to have more than I do.

Whatever the ultimate state of the universe, whether it's a Daoist animism with no greater mind or whether that great mind is something nothing like us and running an experiment whose goals have nothing to do with our goals, remains to be seen but I'm pretty sure our biggest threat, as I mentioned above, is that what got us here (ie. cutthroat Darwinian competition) combined with exponential technology will either be our complete undoing or end up in hundreds if not thousands of years of either feudalism, dark ages, or authoritarianism. The caveat is 'unless we get a handle on our nature' - which, as far as I can tell, would be to go against the very blueprint of life itself which is that sort of destructive cutthroat competition.

I think kabbalah/qabalah, especially when combined with studying the tarot (I suppose that's a specifically post Elipha Levi thing though), is great for a person whose getting to know their own resources and try to branch out into what their own potentialities are. It's sort of an internal extreme sport the way psychedelics and ceremonial magic can be.

I think the real test of any system of self-development though right now is if it can churn out leaders who can stem the tides of what's happening.

While I do ascribe, by and large, to the Caesar's Messiah theory of the New Testament the Revelation of John seems like it's somehow lodged itself in the public consciousness of the west for close to 2000 years and if there's *anything* these days that resembles the Cosmic Virgin standing on the moon, with 12 stars arrayed around her head, watching over her chosen while the great dragon (Tiamat or whatever other primordial chaos one choses) breaths a flood of destruction at her chosen - it's the flood of insentience and mechanism, and/or the flood of people that would fit Richard Dawkins's definition of 'pure replicator'.