Sorry for not updating in a few days. My back has been getting worse again and I am a bit worried about it. I have my CT scan today.
I found a very cool site this morning. It's about Zen, meditation, living in Zero, that sort of thing and you know what? It actually works. It relaxes you and makes you think.
There are 2 episodes to go through. do-not-zzz and living in zero. For the second one click on zero at the bottom.
I went to a funeral yesterday. I saw a lot of people from my church going days (stopped going 6 years ago). I am so glad that I am not in that group of people anymore.
They are like the shallow boring popular crowd in school, you never quite feel that you fit in and you somehow always feel that they are looking down their noses at you.
I thought a lot about dead people during the service. When people talk about going to heaven when they die they have their own preconceived ideas about what heaven will be like.
Usually it is a beautiful place, unspoiled by pollution, riches for all, nobody wants for anything, angel choirs with harps yadda yadda yadda.
This is a very lovely idea but there is one very serious flaw which shatters this idyllic image. Our perception of the universe is totally dependant on our physical bodies.
Now I am not saying here that we will not exist after death, I don't know that. What I am saying is that, our ideas of heaven are based upon our own experiences of life tweaked into the most perfect scenario that we can imagine.
But our experiences are gained through our senses. Our eyes pick up coloured light and translate this into a 3d image in our brain. Well our eyes and brains will be rotting in the earth. We are dependent on the mechanics of our body to perceive images the way we do.
Same with sound. And touch. It's all the mechanics baby. So whatever comes after death, we wont see things, hear things or experience things the way we are used to.
Also memory. Our memories will die with our brains. Same with our personalities. So if there is life after death it is like nothing we can possibly imagine.
Now personally I think there is. I think that all living things work on some kind of energy. With all the new information being discovered about the global consciousness (see September entries on coincidences and the oddities section for MIT experiments) I think that this energy is connected.
The thing is I think that life after death has more to do with quantum physics than with religion. If we find out the theory of everything we will know what happens after death.