Life could indeed be beautiful and just a thought of dying could be
enough to put you in a temporary state of depression. Most of us like
to live. We love life and want more of it, but at the same time we're
all aware that one day we're all going to die. Every human on this
planet knows, that one day they will too cease to exist. Some people
are terrified by this, but some just accept it and are fine with it,
while on the other hand majority of us wants and needs to know if
there's life after.
Let's first look at the facts and what we DO know about death:
- Heart stops and cells get deprived from oxygen so cells start irreversible process of dying
- Lungs cease to function and person stops breathing
- If CPR is not administered within 6 minutes brain starts to die from lack of oxygen.
- After 10 minutes brain damage is certain and irreversible
- Muscles starts to stiffen and body begins to cool down
- Skin and bone cells die latest and could survive up to 36 hours without oxygen
- After 36 hours (and extensive tests) person is pronounced brain dead and there's nothing that could be done for him/her anymore.
- No one has ever came back after 72 hours of his/hers heart stopping.
- Your body decompose and you eventually cease to exists
- Your molecules and atoms become part of the soil and eventually end
up in rivers, water air and perhaps some other person's or animals body.
You might say that this applies only to the body itself and not the
soul. Well, neither me or you nor anyone else knows what the soul is.
Let alone if it exists, so like I said let's stick with what we DO know.
As you know it, your body (matter) cannot just disappear (second law of
thermodynamics prevents that), but it can turn into energy or some
other form of matter. If you consider this kind of energy to be soul
then so be it, but that's not really
living after death and it will not be point of this article. I am assuming that when majority of people are talking about
life after death, they're talking about consciousness living. In other words, they would be aware they're alive.
Sometimes belief in
life after death could be overwhelming
that it would be hard to put it in words. I'm sure we all had following
conversation with our parents, friends or just acquaintances.
Now, consider following quote which comes from one of our greatest thinkers. Mark Twain:
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest
inconvenience from it." - Mark Twain
The New Age Movement
There are people who say they remember their past lives and use that
knowledge to help them with their current lives; the belief in this
kind of occurrence is central to the New Age movement. Some of the
people who remember, say they simply remember without any effort on
their part. They simply "see" previous times and see themselves
interacting with others, occasionally even different creatures besides
people themselves.
Transmigration of the soul (sometimes given simply as Transmigration)
is a philosophy of reincarnation incorporating the specific belief that
after death, the soul of a living being is then transferred (or
transmigrates) into another living form and thus takes birth again.
The philosophy of transmigration is often connected with a
belief that the karma (or, the actions) of the soul in one life (or,
more generally, a series of past lives) determines the future
existence.
It is a belief found within Hindu traditions (such as Yoga,
Vaishnavism, and Jainism), Greek philosophy, animism, theosophy,
anthroposophy, Wicca, and other theological systems, including Kabballa
and a number of minority Christian groups.
Some psychic mediums of a variety of religious persuasions
(from Wiccan all the way to Christian) and some Spiritualists believe
in transmigration of the soul but hold that reincarnation is an anomaly
if it occurs at all
