What Happens When You Die?
Even as a non-physicalist myself hearing people talk about NDE's only does so much for me.
I'm also a non-physicalist, and also consider NDEs to be a living joke in itself.
Why is that so?
Fraud.
Eben Alexander a living fraud. Sued several times for malpractice. Lost them. Above all else we MUST buy his story.
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I see something different.
They might converge into clusters but they don't converge in a broader sense. What probably bothers me even more is said encounters cause people to simultaneously come back with certain 'gifts' and increased new age solipsism and probably less capacity to actually make practical contact in having any useful effect on the world they live in. There are a few of course who were intensely analytical before, intensely analytical after, one guy I'm thinking of is a particularly profound Jungian, but rather than being able to break down what other people experienced he also experienced something quite different.
In a way this backs my sense that if there's conscious experience after death, or a universe brimming with consciousness, the set and setting is more of a haunted naturalism or animism, ie. all the trappings of the world we're used to but far more minds of all sizes wandering about. I like John Gray's joke about this (if you're not familiar he's an existentialist, atheist, also somewhat skeptic of reductive materialism) that people may very well die to go somewhere else where they can ask all of the same questions about where they are or why they're there.
This is where I debate with myself where these people just got juiced by their brain dumping all of their neurotransmitters at once or whether the world 'outside' is as solipsistic and self-interested as we tend to be, and accordingly when it does make contact with our particular fitness landscape those points of contact tend to be trite, manipulative, or downright absurd. I'm sure there's some amount of the former, just that there's a lot of other content that doesn't reduce well to that.
Also having kundalini syndrome is a trip. The ins and outs of that tend to persuade one who's having it that nature's mostly a deeper field rather than there being much of any sort of divine supervisory board.
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The loneliest part of life: it's not just that no one is on your cloud, few can even see your cloud.
Due to the law of conservation of energy, nothing can really be destroyed.
While the concept of "You" may not exist after death, everything that "You" are made of will continue to exist in some form - it has just been converted into something else.
While it is true that energy is conserved, once the source of that energy (a living brain) is switched off (dies), there is no longer any energy to sustain its processes (thoughts). So, when your brain dies, your thought processes end, and whatever becomes of "you" after that is up for conjecture.
"You" are the life experiences and personality which resides in the brain cells.
Once your brain is gone, "you" are gone.
Anything else is irrelevant, in the personal context.
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It is inherently dubious to presume any anecdotal evidence would sway those who believe in the contrary.
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Have you ever researched the Jewish perspective?
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he was overjoyed. the hospice nurses noted that at the moment of his passing he had an ear-to-ear grin as he stared at something off in the distance that only he could see.
WHere i Live Folks Worship
Death And Name This
Place Less Than
Heaven Within
iN A Place
Named 'Church'
I've Already Seen
What Happens When
Folks Die Alive That's
All i Really Need to Feel About Now
Life
Truly
So Many
People Never
Even Really Start
to BREaTHE Heaven Within
For 'You' See Otherwise 'When You die you Live'....
Look at It this way, if 'You' can and or will, Whether
It is Rationally Correct Or Not; Yes, Imagine
This Life is All THere is; Folks Born
into the Eyes of 'The Child' and
Wonder for all that is
And then someone
Tells them
They are not
Worthy And to
Hope Most For What
Happens After Death; Perhaps,
This is 'the Karma of the Grasshopper'
Born Again Again into the Same Lie of Living Death...
Stepped
On Shortly
After They
Are Born
Crunched
Into So Much
Less of what they
Will Be With Wings
as Locusts Returning
Free Again to Breathe...
In Other Words,
Heaven is Hell
And Hell is Truly
Heaven for Those Who
Come to See More than Pages, Letters
Words, Only Covers; Idols Worshipped in a Book oF Lies...
to Demagogue Subjugate And Control
With Rotten Carrots And Rotting Sticks Now Same oF Lies...
Again the Most
Ironic Part
'THeir Book'
Says The Kingdom
Of Heaven May only
Be Found in Living Breath
Those Who Look Elsewhere
Per Luke 17:21 Always Lost and
Never Saving Their Inherited Grace of Bliss...
Meh; No Different ReAlly Than All the Other Theistic ReaLiTy Religions for Now....
Nirvana, Bliss, Satori, Samadhi, Prana, Kundalini Rising, Tao, Autotelic Flow
Unlimited Metaphors We All
Co-Create Basically
Yes, The Same
Essence of Heaven
Within Gained often
Lost in Idol Forms Just
Shells of Words Worshipped Idol Alone...
Here's A FAct, Now, If You Live Forever now
You Never Die
Forever
Now....
Logic, Common Sense,
Only For Those Star Flower/Seeds
Bright Enough to Shine now...
Still Resurrecting
For Now
From
Super Nova Explosion
Crucible Fire Star Dust Seed
Flowers US Still Living for Now....
Living Is A Miracle of Breath Now,
If You Truly Live, You Never Worry
About Anything Else now but Living...
Seriously,
Ask Any Living
Creature that
Does Not Worship Symbols Over Breath Now...
They Won't Have an Answer; Only 'Breath' Enough to See....
And
Be
'i Am' Now...
Generally Speaking
From Studying Human
Nature; Folks Are Born, 'The Child'
Dies Within And If They Are Fortunate
AND DO THE WORK ALL THE BLOOD, SWEAT
AND TEARS Never Giving Up like me They Are Born Again in a Golden
Age Now, as Fully Documented And Recorded For Evidence of course still now;
Some Folks Name 'This', 'the Hero Archetype';
Other Folks Just
Name
It
Returning
to Heaven Out of
Hell On Earth Now...
This Story of Humanity
is Cross-Cultural And Truly Never Ever Alone....
Some Folks Truly
Live And
Other
Folks Do Not;
'Some Folks Dance
And Some Folks Do Not';
-'Guardians Of the Galaxy' of Love too....
And
-'The Child'
Plus -me Just
Another Voice
Crying Out For/As Bliss
For No Other ReaSon Than Heaven Now...
i Do
NOT
Have
to Imagine...
BREaTHiNG IT NoW.
FootNote: WHeRe i Live
(Trump Town USA, FL)
Is Not WHeRe i ReAlly LiVE;
For You 'See' This Place Is WiTHiN...
My Place Breathes.... love flowing fearless free eternally now
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