Afterlife (Endings)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 09, 2013, 00:27 (4335 days ago) @ dhw

Dhw: Since an afterlife is integral to your beliefs, I wonder if you yourself have any views as to what form and course it might take.-I think the views of an afterlife as proposed by the early religious folk has no basis in reality. There is no Hell. And much of the discussion seems to offer a reward for faith and for leading the good life. As I've commented before this is a childlike approach offered by parental religions to keep the members in a childlike submission, awaiting a reward.-I gain my ideas from the characteristics presented in NDE's. The gaining of information not otherwise available by communication with the dead supports that NDE's are real and instructional. The dead communicate by telepathy. Since consciousness survives transient death, I believe our consciousness in death joins with the universal consciousness, of which a subsection is human species consciousness as demostrated by Rupert Sheldrake's work. This is what is referred to as Heaven. Heaven exists at a quantum level, which is purposely hidden from us as God is, since He (the UI)is also at that level. -Perhaps you can explain to me why God's purposeful concealment puzzles you. It is an integral part of mature religion. It requires a strong faith to have faith in a concealed God. Tony understands.