I do have an additional comment for you. I’d be interested in hearing your take on it if you have the time.

I say, as a society, we do NOT want the afterlife to become common, scientific knowledge.

I think many people can understand and appreciate the existence of an afterlife. For some it gives hope where none can exist. For others, like me, it makes us want to live this life to the absolute fullest, knowing how important it is to take advantage of the short period of time that we’re here.

I am scared beyond words if this belief became common knowledge. I think the fear of death is an important aspect of life here. What would it be like if everyone knew there was something after this world. Living life with NO fear of death.

I think you would see suicides become common place. I also think those who seek shortcuts in life, will have no problem taking them knowing that no matter what happens, they’ll be OK. No remorse.

What are your thoughts about that? Do you think that this belief is not meant for everyone? Do you think it would be dangerous for us, as a people, to know that there’s an existence beyond this life?

I’m curious what your thoughts are. Thanks!

However, I can NOT say, with confidence, that explains away everything people have experienced within this realm. I’m not a believer in our minds capacity to actually create or produce matter. I’ve never seen solid evidence that our brains are capable of such things.

In the end, I do believe many personal experiences can be naturally explained away with an active / altered mind, it does not, however, explain ALL of the experiences people have had.

A skeptic sees this issue as a general, broad area – matrixing – tricks of a complicated system (brain) – but their fault starts by not addressing, directly, ALL of the evidence. I’ve seen far too many conditions/studies that shows their is something that exists on its own, outside our realm of influence. Not generated, manipulated, or conceived by our minds. Something totally independent.

Again, I’m not sure what your beliefs are, but your posts, at the very least, get people to think. Thinking can never be a bad thing. That’s the main problem with most Skeptics. Skeptics get to a certain point, one they’re comfortable with, then stop thinking all together. Their minds were made up long before they ever examined anything.

Sounds pretty sad to me. As far as I am concerned, our abilities to live our life to the fullest comes from understanding life in general. It’s not a once and done proposition. We are ever evolving. And we are responsible for our own paths, and do one elses.

Hope that makes sense to some one out there.

i think that most of us know of, or believe in the power of the mind. what we don’t seem to see is the purpose of the experiences, mainly they all prove there is something else going on, even if unseen. nightmares appeare to wake you from sleep so you can change position, or accomplish a task, every one of us has erotic dreams, incubuses and sucubuses are a product of the monestry. if hollywood’s portayal of what we can expect in the next existance is correct, i’m not going.

remember you are god

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