Twighlight
Quantum Scribe
We May \'Survive\' Death Through The Nature Of Time
I had this idea quite a few years ago. It's a brilliant trick for 'surviving' death...without any need for a soul or spirit or whatever that lives on 'afterwards'. Having pondered the idea more recently....it even seems quite logical, though perhaps Rainman or Darby may find some loopholes.
We start with the supposition that our perception of time is somewhat illusory. Interestingly, many people who have had near-death or even extreme transcendental states have described a 'timeless' state of being. Of course, a 'timeless experience' itself sounds a bit of an oxymoron....as to experience anything passing or changing requires time.
BUT, it may on the other hand be that our perception of time is wrong, and that it is possible to perceive a true state 'outside' of time.
The point here is not how one justifies a timeless state.....but the implications of it. You see, one of the implications of it is that the whole concept of 'before' and 'after' changes and we are effectively viewing time no longer as a being travelling along a continuous line but with an 'overview'....as if we were looking down on that line.
But here is the real neat trick. That timeless state, by definition, does not exist anywhere WITHIN time itself. Neither before we are born, or after we die. It exists outside of that.
This means that, maybe subconsciously to us, our brains could be constructing an entire 'afterlife' WHILE WE ARE STILL ALIVE.
We die....and just as the atheists say, there is no soul or 'spirit' that 'survives'.....no ethereal substance that passes on. BUT.....we DO in fact 'survive' because while we were alive our brains connected to that timeless state.....and being timeless the fact that we are 'dead' within time itself becomes irrelevant.
This may all be just a trick of perception. But as a means of 'surviving' in the absence of a 'spirit' it is a really quite neat trick.
I had this idea quite a few years ago. It's a brilliant trick for 'surviving' death...without any need for a soul or spirit or whatever that lives on 'afterwards'. Having pondered the idea more recently....it even seems quite logical, though perhaps Rainman or Darby may find some loopholes.
We start with the supposition that our perception of time is somewhat illusory. Interestingly, many people who have had near-death or even extreme transcendental states have described a 'timeless' state of being. Of course, a 'timeless experience' itself sounds a bit of an oxymoron....as to experience anything passing or changing requires time.
BUT, it may on the other hand be that our perception of time is wrong, and that it is possible to perceive a true state 'outside' of time.
The point here is not how one justifies a timeless state.....but the implications of it. You see, one of the implications of it is that the whole concept of 'before' and 'after' changes and we are effectively viewing time no longer as a being travelling along a continuous line but with an 'overview'....as if we were looking down on that line.
But here is the real neat trick. That timeless state, by definition, does not exist anywhere WITHIN time itself. Neither before we are born, or after we die. It exists outside of that.
This means that, maybe subconsciously to us, our brains could be constructing an entire 'afterlife' WHILE WE ARE STILL ALIVE.
We die....and just as the atheists say, there is no soul or 'spirit' that 'survives'.....no ethereal substance that passes on. BUT.....we DO in fact 'survive' because while we were alive our brains connected to that timeless state.....and being timeless the fact that we are 'dead' within time itself becomes irrelevant.
This may all be just a trick of perception. But as a means of 'surviving' in the absence of a 'spirit' it is a really quite neat trick.
