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DO WE LIVE AFTER DEATH

10/19/2019



 
Do you believe in life after death? Too often I find that the subject of death
is addressed with goofy speculation, close-minded stubbornness, or outright fear
and avoidance. So let’s bypass the “Death for Dummies” approach and take a
deeper intellectual look at death to better understand the important role it
plays in our lives and especially what it can teach us about how to live.

Feb 13, 2018  LIFE AFTER DEATH: ‘NO HEAVEN just infinite sadness, blackness and
the knowledge I’m dead’. Live forever: Wonder drugs kill zombie cells and
prevent diseases making 100 the new 60. Life after death continues as your
spirit awaits resurrection. We lived before we came to earth, and we will
continue to live after we die. Those who continue in their sins and do not
repent will receive a place in the telestial kingdom.
As far as our human bodies are concerned, death eventually captures all of us.
As far as I can tell, no human being has yet managed to live forever. Even if we
evolve new silicon bodies for ourselves and find a way to transfer our minds
into them, there’s no reason to believe those bodies will be immortal either
(even with frequent upgrades).
We may be able to delay death, perhaps even for a very long time, but eventually
our physical existence will end at some point. Forever is too long for us to
last as physical beings. No backup system is foolproof, especially when its
opponent is the infinity of time. On average more than 150,000 people die every
day on this planet. That’s 2 people per second. Over a million corpses a week.
And this is “normal” for planet earth.
Does this fact help you get some perspective on the scope of various tragedies?
If 3000 people get wiped out in a single stroke, that’s still only 2% of one
day’s total hardly significant from a cosmic point of view. And here’s the worst
part. You don’t even know when you’ll die (unless you’re reading this right
before committing suicide, in which case I’d better keep writing). But my guess
is that you don’t have an item labeled “die” on your to do list or in your
tickler file. So how comfortable do you feel with the idea that today might be
your last day alive? For 150,000 people today, that’s about to become the
reality, so if you happen to be among them, you’ll have plenty of company.
I wonder how many of those people feel prepared for what awaits them. What do we
really know about what happens after death? Instead of launching into stories
about near-death experiences and what various religions say, let’s try sneaking
up on this problem from a different angle. Let’s ask this question instead: What
can we reasonably say does NOT happen after death? Obviously what’s “reasonable”
will differ a bit from person to person based on his/her context and beliefs,
but I think most of us can agree on some fairly basic observations. First, you
can’t take it with you. All your physical stuff stays here.
Whenever someone dies, we notice that their stuff remains in the physical world.
It doesn’t suddenly vanish.
Another thing we notice is that our physical bodies stay here. That includes our
heart, lungs, brain, hemp tattoos, etc. Also, it’s fair to say that because the
physical stuff stays here, then any knowledge and skills you’ve developed which
are rooted in the physical world will become obsolete when you die.
Your knowledge of HTML probably won’t be of much use in the afterlife, unless of
course there are dead computers in the afterlife too, such as my old Atari 800.
I hope you still know BASIC. If we manage to retain anything of ourselves after
death, it seems reasonable to say that it won’t include any of our physical
stuff or our physical bodies. And much of our knowledge will be obsolete as
well.
If we can take anything with us after death then, it would have to be something
non-physical in nature. And the non-physical part of ourselves is our
consciousness. You can call it other names if you wish — soul, spirit, etc. The
exact term you use doesn’t really matter.
I’ll use the term consciousness. So we have a couple alternatives that seem
reasonable to me:. After we die we retain some part of our consciousness, but
all the physical parts of our existence are lost. After we die we cease to
exist. Our consciousness gets wiped out along with the physical. Dead and gone
forever.
Life After Death I can think of many other options which are variations on these
two. You can twist and reword these basic ideas into different forms, and you
can speculate endlessly about what it would be like to experience option 1 (such
as a precursor to reincarnation), but I think this is what death basically boils
down to. Either we continue to exist in some non-physical state of
consciousness, or we don’t. Now which one of these general options is most
likely true and correct?
Certainly we can unearth pieces of evidence that may favor one side or the
other. We can look externally and examine things like near-death experiences and
those who claim to channel dead people and so on.
We can look to ancient texts and other people (living or dead) for guidance. Or
we can look within ourselves and attempt to intuit the truth. Personally I’ve
done plenty of both looking within and looking without, and so far it hasn’t
really given me a satisfying answer. I found enough evidence to partially
convince me that option 1 is more likely correct than option 2, but there are
still a number of holes that leave me with doubt. Given what I know about
beliefs, I always have to wonder to what degree I may be finding what I expect
to find at any given time. This uncertainty about death presents a serious
problem though.
In order to live my life in a manner I feel is intelligent, I’d really prefer a
clear answer here. If I know that option 1 is correct, I’m going to live my life
very differently than if I know option 2 is correct. I can’t do both at the same
time because they seem incompatible. I’d set different goals on one side vs.
Living in a state of uncertainty doesn’t quite work either. Uncertainty in this
particular area gives me a poor basis for making intelligent lifelong decisions.
It’s fine that I’m uncertain about what the weather will be like next week. But
uncertainty about death itself makes long-term planning nearly impossible unless
I lower my consciousness, watch a lot of TV, and subscribe to the social context
without thinking for myself. Think about it — if you knew with absolute and
total certainty what will happen to you after death, would it change how you’re
living your life today? Remaining uncertain in this area is a suboptimal choice
— it’s better to decide one way or the other and be wrong than it is to remain
uncertain and do nothing. Too much doubt in this area will produce the worst
outcome of all.
In order to intelligently decide how to live, we need to have a reasonable
understanding of where we’re headed. We can still live OK without this
certainty, but we couldn’t really say that we’re living intelligently, since
we’d have no basis for knowing if our decisions would ultimately turn out to be
smart or foolish in the long run. This line of thinking helped me realize that I
needed to achieve certainty on whether I was going to live in accordance with
option 1 or option 2. Only then would I really have the freedom and direction
needed to live intelligently. But looking at all the evidence wasn’t quite
enough to convince me to intelligently choose one side or the other.
It leaned me towards option 1 but not enough to give me total certainty. I could
at least see that the approach of looking for evidence wasn’t going to work. It
would continue to produce more data but not more certainty. That’s when I
decided to come at this problem from a different perspective, as I mentioned in
a blog post called,.
Instead of worrying about which option was correct, I decided to more
immersively explore both sides — to treat each of these options as its own
belief system in order to experience them directly. I realized that I would
never have enough data to make a firm decision from the outside looking in. So I
chose to consider the inside looking out. One perspective I took was the
perspective of being already dead. Under option 2 I would completely cease to
exist, so that was an easy perspective to consider. It was in fact no
perspective at all.
I wouldn’t be around to regret or praise anything I did. So if option 2
ultimately turned out to be true and correct, then in the long run it would make
very little difference how I lived, at least in the sense of getting anywhere in
the future. About the only meaningful conclusion I could draw from this
(un)perspective was that a life lived under option 2 should be lived with a
strong focus on the present moment. Then I considered the perspective of option
1.
That one had a lot more branches to explore, but essentially they fell into two
types. First, there’s the possibility that I can no longer really do anything
with my consciousness after death. Perhaps I enter some sort of eternal state of
existence from which there’s no escape.
Maybe it’s a heaven or a hell of sorts. No more doing just being.
So if I found my consciousness frozen in such a manner, where I was still
self-aware but unable to really do anything other than ponder my celestial
navel, there is a reasonable leap of logic I can make there. And that is that if
this happens, I think the most likely state in which my consciousness would
freeze would be related to the general state it’s in when I die. So my death
would sort of be a continuation of my life, but there would be no further
development of my consciousness. I don’t really need to consider the situation
where my consciousness is frozen in some random state that’s out of my control,
since that doesn’t give me any more information about how to live and basically
reverts to the same conclusions as option 2.

The other branch of option 1 is that perhaps I will have some ability to
continue to take action after I die. So there’s some type of postmortem doing in
addition to just being. But what would I do? If it wouldn’t be anything
physical, then the only real doing would have to involve something for my
consciousness to experience. And this implies that I’d be able to continue
developing and growing as a conscious being even after death.
Perhaps there will be a new phase of existence similar to a human life but
without any of the physical elements. Then I could continue what I’m doing now
and put together a soul site called, “Personal Development for Dead People.” The
URL could be StevePavlina.rip. There was a lot more to consider in exploring
these options, but let’s fast-forward to the part where the results of that
thinking all get smooshed together. I’ve already mentioned that option 2 doesn’t
provide much direction except to suggest it’s best to live fully in the present
moment because there won’t be any future beyond death. The first branch of
option 1 (where I end up frozen in a certain state of being without the ability
to do anything) suggests that I should develop my consciousness during my
physical lifetime as much as possible, such that when I die, I’m at least frozen
in a good and peaceful state if my postmortem condition is based on how I
develop my consciousness as a human. It also suggests that I should take full
advantage of my physical existence in order to develop my own tools of
consciousness, since perhaps I’ll still be able to use them after death. The
second branch of option 1 (where I can continue to develop my consciousness
after death and maybe even interact with other conscious beings) suggests that
any growth I experience in my consciousness here on earth may have a chance of
continuing after I die.
And since I’m going to spend a lot more time dead than living as a human, it
seems logical to hold as my highest priority the development of my consciousness
and the consciousness of others. And in fact, that might very well be the entire
purpose of human existence from the point of view of non-physical conscious
entities. So ultimately, even if I couldn’t determine the truth to life after
death from the outside looking in, that actually doesn’t seem to matter as much
as I thought it would. Option 2 provides so little info about how to live, but
option 1 provides quite a bit. So I can actually live congruently even without
knowing the complete truth in advance because even if it turns out I’m wrong,
I’m still pursuing an intelligent course of action.
I think the main reason I found it so difficult to understand the possibilities
beyond death is that I was coming at it from the wrong perspective. I was trying
to understand certainty from the perspective of doubt and skepticism. And that
turned out to be a mistake because doubt cannot create certainty — it can only
perpetuate doubt. So I had to change my perspective to experience these options
from the inside looking out. I considered the perspective of option 1 looking at
option 2 and vice versa. So I put myself into a state of certainty looking at
another state of certainty.
As an another analogy, you’ll gain more information by looking at Catholicism
from the perspective of atheism (and vice versa) than you will by looking at
both of them from the perspective of agnosticism. Those side views are the key
to discovering what is true for your consciousness. I should also address the
perspective of the humans left behind on earth after you die.
I spent a lot of time considering that viewpoint as well, but ultimately it
doesn’t change anything. In fact, it only adds more fuel to the fire. The path
of developing your consciousness is precisely the path of service. Raising your
own consciousness will put you in the position of being able to help others.
Consider this web site for example. It is intended to be of service to others,
but it is also a medium through which I continue to develop my own
consciousness. The two outcomes are in perfect harmony with each other.
If you work to raise your own consciousness, you will simultaneously raise the
consciousness of others. And if you strive to serve others, you will
simultaneously raise your own level of consciousness. Ultimately, I realized
that the simple truth here was that of free will. Once I understood the
perspectives of both options 1 and 2, I had all the information I needed to make
a choice. But it wasn’t really a choice between which option was provably
correct from an external point of view.
None of the options were externally provable because consciousness is not
subject to the scientific method. Consciousness works on an entirely different
level. So at this level, the real “truth” was to apply my own free will to
decide what I wanted to be true for me what I wanted to make a part of my own
consciousness. Did I want to choose to live in accordance with option 1 or
option 2? There was no externally right or wrong answer. It was simply a matter
of choice. So I chose option 1, the branch which suggests that conscious action
and growth continue even after death.
And part of the reason I chose this to be my own truth was that I realized that
it’s the most intelligent choice I can make no matter what the reality of death
turns out to be. Even if we all go to oblivion when we die, it’s still the most
intelligent choice to live with the belief that we are immortal conscious
beings. That belief will actually yield a more intelligently lived life, one
that is dedicated to the greatest good of all. It will promote and enhance the
survival of all humans.
Where the scientific method fails, choice must fill in the gap. And that choice
can be either certainty or doubt. But in order to understand this great choice,
we must experience both the certainty and the doubt to know what we’re really
choosing. It is entirely up to us to choose a life of greatness or to choose a
life of nothingness. I think this is what Helen Keller meant by the quote, “Life
is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” It is our personal choice that makes
it so. Choose doubt and get nothing. Choose certainty and greatness results.
To sum it all up for you, here’s why holding the development of your own
consciousness as your highest priority in life makes sense:. Developing your
consciousness will give you the tools to understand life and death much better,
which will help you decide how to live as intelligently as possible. Developing
your consciousness will help you escape pain and create tremendous pleasure for
yourself, so if you ultimately go to oblivion, at least you’ll fully enjoy your
life along the way. It will also help you transcend the fear of death. If you
die and find yourself frozen in a certain state of consciousness, it probably
won’t be so bad because you’ll have developed your consciousness as much as
possible while you lived.
You’ll have done the best you can to prepare for this possibility. If you die
and find that you’re able to continue developing your consciousness after death,
then your human existence will have given you a great head start. And if I get
there first, you’ll immediately be able to subscribe to the feed for “Personal
Development for Dead People,” and we’ll continue growing together as spirits in
the ether. Won’t that be fun?. Developing your consciousness will ultimately
cause you to live in such a manner that raises the awareness of other people
around you, helping to transform the world into a better place for everyone. So
this is in fact the best way to live if you wish to be of service to all of
humanity. For these and other reasons, I believe the most intelligent thing we
can do with our human lives is to pursue the development of our own
consciousness.
Now perhaps we can’t take our consciousness with us either, but at the very
least, it’s the only thing that even has the potential to continue with us after
death. This is the manner in which I live right now. It has produced some very
powerful side effects. First, there’s no fear of death. I feel prepared to die
at any time, whether it be tomorrow or next year or 100 years from now. I’m
totally at peace with the realization that my human existence could come to an
end at any given moment, possibly without warning.
Secondly, I feel I’m living fully in the present. I’m enjoying this life
tremendously, but more as a spiritual experience than a physical one. I expect
that if I died today and looked back on my human life, I’d feel really good
about how I used the time I had. I would feel I’d done my best. Thirdly, I feel
my life is firmly rooted in what is permanent, not what is temporary. I see
everything physical as merely temporary. By itself physical stuff doesn’t hold
much meaning for me.
When I look around the physical world, I see animated dust filled with
consciousness. The dust is boring and lifeless, but the consciousness is rich
and exciting and alive. I see money and other physical stuff as temporary tools
to be used for the long-term development of consciousness. Even my physical body
is just a temporary tool, mainly for communicating. My highest priorities as a
human being are rooted in what I feel is permanent. If I’m able to continue on
after I die, my to do list would essentially remain the same.
I would only need to change the form of the most important items but not the
intention behind them. Whether I’m dead or alive, my purpose remains the same:
to grow and to help others grow in consciousness.
Only the manner in which that purpose manifests would change. To me the service
of the highest good is to devote my life to the service of consciousness itself,
regardless of whether I exist as a physical or an etheric being. To me this is
the highest degree of personal productivity — to adopt a context for living that
even makes sense from the perspective of beyond the grave, to live here on earth
as a timeless being instead of a mortal one. How many of your current goals and
dreams seem shallow and lifeless when viewed from this perspective? Do you live
for what is permanent or for what is ephemeral? Is your human existence devoted
to the servicing of dust or the realization of destiny?
What awaits us after death? Many Christian denominations teach a “ or ”
afterlife. There are many ideas about what heaven and hell are like, and about
who will go to heaven and who will go to hell. But do all these ideas come from
the Bible? What does the Bible really teach about life after death? Nestled in a
passage that discusses the role Jesus Christ played in willingly offering
Himself as a sacrifice for our sins, this statement is made: “And as it is
appointed for men to die once ” (Hebrews 9:27).
Since death awaits us all, what happens after death is certainly worth
considering! What does the Bible say about death? In several locations the Bible
likens death to sleep. Notice the apostle Paul’s comforting instruction to the
believers in Thessalonica: “But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning those who have fallen asleep those who had died, lest you sorrow as
others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even
so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14).
Before continuing with this passage, we need to address two matters: How is
death similar to sleep?
And second, if God is bringing these people “with Him,” from where is He
bringing them? Death is similar to sleep in that no conscious thought occurs
when one has died. Two statements in the book of Ecclesiastes tell us of this
reality:. “For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing”
(Ecclesiastes 9:5). “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for
there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are
going” (verse 10). Psalm 146:4 adds: “His breath goeth forth, he returneth to
his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish” (King James Version).
Once death occurs, human consciousness ends. Nothing’s going on in the mind.
After his children had died suddenly, his possessions were taken away, and he
was afflicted with “painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his
head” (Job 1:7), Job accurately summed up the nature of death while longing for
it: “Why did I not die at birth?
Why did I not perish when I came from the womb? For now I would have lain still
and been quiet, I would have been asleep” (Job 3:11-13). Will we return from
heaven with Jesus? We have established that death is like a sleep in that a
person is not actively engaged in any activity—no conscious thoughts, no labor,
no anything. Now, let’s return to our second question regarding 1 Thessalonians
4:14: From where does God bring these people who “sleep in Jesus” (i.e., people
who are dead)? Some would say He brings them from heaven.
Is this what the Bible teaches? Jesus Christ said in John 3:13: “No one has
ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who
is in heaven.” That seems clear! Why is it so hard for so many to believe? Where
do we go when we die?
People who have died are not awake in heaven! They are “sleeping” or resting in
their graves. The remaining verses of 1 Thessalonians 4 confirm this. Notice:
“For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and
remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are
asleep are dead. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.
And the dead in Christ will rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:15-16)., the dead
will “rise.” For one to “rise,” one would have to come up from somewhere. If one
had died and gone to heaven already, then the individual wouldn’t be rising from
the grave when Christ returns. He or she would be descending from heaven, yet
this is not what Paul taught the Thessalonians. This teaching of our being
raised from the grave at Jesus Christ’s return is reiterated in 1 Corinthians
15:51-52: “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For
the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed.” Jesus Christ Himself also taught the principle of being raised up
in John 6:39-40: “This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has
given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
It is appointed for all of us to die, but when Jesus Christ returns to the earth
at the last day, the followers of Jesus Christ who have died will be raised from
their graves and given eternal life. While it may be comforting to those
struggling to cope with the death of loved ones to think of them as looking down
from heaven, this belief is unbiblical and false.
Instead, God’s Word comforts us with the fact that there is no suffering in the
grave. And since there is no thought for those in the grave (; ), there can be
no awareness on their part of the passage of time. When they are resurrected, it
will be as though they have awakened from sleep.
We can take great comfort in knowing that when they awaken, they will rise in a
much different world, a world that Jesus Christ and the resurrected saints will
be ruling (read more about this by searching our section on the ). Why isn’t the
truth about heaven and the resurrection taught? Why do many churches not
understand this basic teaching about what happens when you die?
In part, they try to explain away these clear verses by bringing up other
passages that seem to contradict scriptural teaching on the subject. One is the
story of Lazarus and the rich man—a story often misinterpreted.
To read more on this subject, see our article on “.” Secondly, they refer to
Jesus Christ’s statements to the “thief on the cross” who was crucified
alongside Him: “And Jesus said to him, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, today you will
be with Me in Paradise’” (Luke 23:43). From this statement, people say, “See,
Christ tells the man that he will be with Christ in Paradise that day!” There
are two reasons why we should not draw this conclusion when reading this
passage:.
Jesus Christ very clearly stated He would be in the grave three days and three
nights upon His death (Matthew 12:39-40). The grave is not paradise. In the
original manuscripts of the New Testament, punctuation was not used.
Punctuation has been added by translators to try to provide clarity. The passage
could also be translated, “Assuredly, I say to you today comma, you shall be
with Me in Paradise.” To put it in the vernacular, Christ could have been
saying, “I’m telling you today that one day you’re going to be with Me in
Paradise.” Translated this way, with the comma after the word “today” instead of
before it, the passage fits with the other teachings of the resurrection found
in Scripture. Read more about this in our article “” The Bible speaks of other
resurrections that lead us to discussions surrounding the subjects of heaven,
hell and the Kingdom of God, which are beyond the scope of this brief article.
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