Concepts of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 15:48 (3138 days ago) @ BBella


> > dhw: My “theory” would have two starting-points: 1) energy, and 2) the subjectivity of reality. -> > 
> > The individualized form of energy (identity) that we have on Earth is not consistent; -> > 
> > If all the psychic and after-life experiences are real, then, the immaterial self survives the death of the material self as an individualized unit of energy.> > 
> > Finally, what happens long-term to this individualized energy once it is freed from the body? I like your own suggestion: it chooses the reality it wishes to be in. -> > 
> > My made-up explanation, then, is that ultimately all is energy, and reality is whatever the individual thinks it is. But of course this particular individual at this particular time doesn't even know what he thinks reality is!-> 
> BBella: Wow! Beautiful! I am near speechless! Especially since what you express is so very near (you filled in the cracks for me) what I've already come to conclude (with an open-ended conclusion) for myself - if, as per the condition, what many people experience is in fact reality. But I could have never expressed it so well! Yes, I know it is all conjecture - but still, I am blown away. 
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> Maybe there is already a similar belief out there like this - if so, I may have missed it, or have I?-I've followed the discussion. It is interesting that dhw can imagine pure free floating energy when generally he argues against the concept. I think the NDE studies are the closest to answering the possibility of an afterlife. As for our concept of reality, I'll stick with my idea that the brain is a coperative biologic machine that we use consciously and actually shape consciously to help us understand everything that is outside our bodies.