P45C4LWed, Jul 16, 2008 I have always considered myself infinite, which means my death will only change my experience with my environment, and my perception of my identity. I find it hard to push away the time I will move on to the next phase of my life cycles. Death isn't a disease we have to cure. It's like imagining souls living in the pre-earth incarnation state trying to extend that precise time/phase in order to not born. We live in such materialistic societies that we have a material concept of the self. I think the major difference between humans now and in the past is that we used to be souls which had bodies, now we are bodies having souls.
I was before this life so will I be after, therefore my birth was amost the proof of my immortality. As I must come from somewhere as much as i go somewhere (else) after
We have two radically different approaches on this earth on how to consider death.
The first one is mostly know as the way of the sacrifice. By living a righteous life of sacrifice, ultimately offering our physical bodies to our Gods, we are promised to receive eternal life in heaven as a reward. It is a way that seeks for immortality in God, in Heaven, in the Above.
The second way is the way of the matter. With their intelligent and creative minds, humans try to acquire a total control upon their physical shells in order to maintain and extend their existence on earth almost for ever. It is the way to eternal life in the matter, in earth through our own creations, our technology.
However, these visions are mainly practised in monotheists religions. As most shamanic and animists cults and other philosophies and religions consider time as a cycle.
Mostly Judaic, Christian and Muslim religions consider time as linear.
I have always considered myself infinite, which means my death will only change my experience with my environment, and my perception of my identity. I find it hard to push away the time I will move on to the next phase of my life cycles. Death isn't a disease we have to cure. It's like imagining souls living in the pre-earth incarnation state trying to extend that precise time/phase in order to not born. We live in such materialistic societies that we have a material concept of the self. I think the major difference between humans now and in the past is that we used to be souls which had bodies, now we are bodies having souls.
I was before this life so will I be after, therefore my birth was amost the proof of my immortality. As I must come from somewhere as much as i go somewhere (else) after
We have two radically different approaches on this earth on how to consider death.
The first one is mostly know as the way of the sacrifice. By living a righteous life of sacrifice, ultimately offering our physical bodies to our Gods, we are promised to receive eternal life in heaven as a reward. It is a way that seeks for immortality in God, in Heaven, in the Above.
The second way is the way of the matter. With their intelligent and creative minds, humans try to acquire a total control upon their physical shells in order to maintain and extend their existence on earth almost for ever. It is the way to eternal life in the matter, in earth through our own creations, our technology.
However, these visions are mainly practised in monotheists religions. As most shamanic and animists cults and other philosophies and religions consider time as a cycle.
Mostly Judaic, Christian and Muslim religions consider time as linear.