I received a request by email What do you think happens when you die?
After my close call, during recovery, I have had time to think about the whole subject of death. I suppose the most obvious reality shift is death is no longer an abstract its a tangible reality.
When we are born we start to die. To die is a part of life. Fear is the predominate emotion in those rare instances that we allow our selves to contemplate the actual event. Humans have adapted many stratagems to handle the fear of dying.
We have created or at least accepted abstract postulates such as , religion, heaven, hell, reincarnation, universal mind etc. These are comforting postulates but they can only be accepted on faith. (Unfortunately all faith can be decimated by close examination and discussed to the point of abandonment.) Since after life can not be guaranteed absolutely. How we handle this basic truth, successively defines the type of person that we are. Death is the end of an accumulation of experiences, actions and remembrances. How we live are life for good or bad (none of us are all virtuous or all immoral) is how we accept the inevitable. Death should not be feared (after all fear is an emotion like laughing or crying, if we accept this premise then we can control the emotion) it should be only a stepping stone to the next level of knowledge.
After my close call, during recovery, I have had time to think about the whole subject of death. I suppose the most obvious reality shift is death is no longer an abstract its a tangible reality.
When we are born we start to die. To die is a part of life. Fear is the predominate emotion in those rare instances that we allow our selves to contemplate the actual event. Humans have adapted many stratagems to handle the fear of dying.We have created or at least accepted abstract postulates such as , religion, heaven, hell, reincarnation, universal mind etc. These are comforting postulates but they can only be accepted on faith. (Unfortunately all faith can be decimated by close examination and discussed to the point of abandonment.) Since after life can not be guaranteed absolutely. How we handle this basic truth, successively defines the type of person that we are. Death is the end of an accumulation of experiences, actions and remembrances. How we live are life for good or bad (none of us are all virtuous or all immoral) is how we accept the inevitable. Death should not be feared (after all fear is an emotion like laughing or crying, if we accept this premise then we can control the emotion) it should be only a stepping stone to the next level of knowledge.
This makes more sense to me than gossamer wings or burning torment. I believe that god is an absolute and that he is neither loving or vengeful. That we are placed on earth for a reason and that it is not merely random selection. The reason is neither good nor bad but rather an attempt to take progression of knowledge to the next step or level. God maybe the summation of all souls or the absolute essence of spark of life. (did you know that we can duplicate a cell biologically and chemically, but for all of this we cannot give it life, spark of life maybe a misnomer. The spark of life may be the definition of God.)We have bad things happen to us and ask, “why me Lord why me”. What you are really saying is “Why not someone else Lord why not someone else”. You invite and/or attract what happens to you for good or bad.
I have for years had a sign on my desk, (don’t even know where it came from) that pronounces, “You Become What You Think About”. As I have grown older I have found this to be a self-evident truth without equal
When we pray we do not change Gods mind or even influence him to take notice. God doesn't change his mind, we do.
Prayer is powerful, there are too many documented examples to simply dismiss it as a crutch of the masses. My best advice is, “don’t save prayer as a last resort”.
Belief in God is a fundamental building block of the person we think we are. It makes no difference what you call him:
Allah, Almighty, Deus, Divine Being, God, Heavenly Father, Hosanna, Jehovah, Supreme Brahman, whose three primary incarnations are Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, Lord, Master Of The Universe, Omnipotent Being, Supreme Being, The Creator, Etc. The name is only semantics’ for the intelligence we define as God. Even the Atheist believe in God. How can you disbelieve or deny something that you don’t believe exists.
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