Monday, October 8, 2012

LIFE AFTER DEATH ...PROVEN...?

THE TITLE LINK POSES SOME INTERESTING ISSUES ON LIFE AFTER DEATH...OR LIFE AFTER NEAR DEATH...

THE DOCTOR WHO WRITES OF HIS "AFTER LIFE" EXPERIENCE WHILE IN A COMA...MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AS "DEAD" AS THE MACHINES WOULD HAVE MADE IT SEEM...


FOR ONE...HE IS ALIVE TODAY AND WRITING A BOOK ABOUT HIS "NEAR DEATH" EXPERIENCE...AS "PROVING HEAVEN EXISTS!"


BUT NO ONE HAS ACTUALLY COME BACK... FROM THE DEAD...IN THE SENSE OF BEING SCIENTIFICALLY DEAD FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME...SEVERAL DAYS FOR EXAMPLE...

SO NEAR DEATH...IS NOT DEATH... WE KNOW THAT THE BODY IS A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF CELLS ... AND DEATH DOES NOT OCCUR SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE WHOLE BODY...


INDEED THE DYING ARE OFTEN SAID TO "DRAW FLIES" EVEN BEFORE ACTUAL CLINICAL DEATH OF THE WHOLE BODY OCCURS... WE DIE IN STAGES...

THUS ANY EXPERIENCE DURING "NEAR DEATH"...WHICH CAN NOW BE DESCRIBED AND DISCUSSED BY THE PERSON WHO EXPERIENCED IT...IS OF QUESTIONABLE USEFULNESS...

THAT SAID IT IS  POSSIBLE THAT THE BODY AND BRAIN ARE NOT THE SOLE PRODUCERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS...AND ARE RATHER ITS VEHICLE...AS THE AUTHOR SPECULATES...


THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH MANY EASTERN RELIGIONS THAT VIEW REALITY AS A ONENESS...


AND THE BODY MERELY CREATES A FALSE DUALITY ....THAT BLINDS US TO THE ESSENTIAL UNITY OF THE UNIVERSE...

WE DO KNOW THAT THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM...  TIME IS NOT ABSOLUTE...WHICH IN ITSELF IS A SCARY THOUGHT...AND SPACE IS RELATIVE TO MANY THINGS...


INDEED THE NOTION OF THE BIG BANG AND WHAT EXISTED BEFORE THE BIG BANG...OR,  EVEN IF THE WORD "EXIST" HAS MEANING...BEFORE THE BIG BANG...IS A PROBLEM...

WITTGENSTEIN MAY HAVE BEEN RIGHT...MAYBE LANGUAGE IS FUCKING US UP BADLY....


PERHAPS REALITY IS NOT SOLELY A NUMBERS GAME...IF PERCEPTION IS A SEPARATE THING IN THE UNIVERSE ... ALONG SIDE ENERGY AND MATTER... ALL BETS ARE OFF...  WE KNOW THAT IN QUANTUM PHYSICS "PERCEPTION" IS NOT TOTALLY OUTSIDE OF THE PHENOMENON BEING OBSERVED...BUT ODDLY A PART OF IT...  WHAT IS THAT SAYING TO US...?


MAYBE THE HINDUS WERE RIGHT AND WE DO "RECYCLE" OUR ESSENTIAL SELVES REPEATEDLY...UNTIL WE ARE SMART ENOUGH TO DESERVE "ONENESS"...


OR... DO WE JUST SIT THERE BOUNCING ON A PINK CLOUD FOREVER...AS WESTERN RELIGIONS CLAIM?

LIKELY NEAR DEATH IS NOT REAL DEATH...OK...?


BECAUSE REAL DEATH IS THE TOTAL ABSENCE OF EXPERIENCE...BY DEFINITION.

 SO IF YOU CAN STILL DREAM ABOUT IT...?

IT JUST AIN'T REAL...?