--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > I figure that the guys in the Vedic tradition were doing the > > > > best they could to explain human consciousness, and I don't > > > > discount their contribution. I just feel that we have learned > > > > a bit since then and that should be brought into the > discussion. > > > > I believe that consciousness is an emergent quality of the > > > > activity of my brain. If my brain dies, there is no more me > > > > at all. I'm cool with that. > > > > > > Actually, we don't know any more about what happens > > > to "me" when the brain dies than the guys in the Vedic > > > tradition did. > > > > > > > > > "Ain't no heaven, ain't no burn'n hell, > > were we go when we die, can't nobody tell." > > > > John Lee Hooker > > > Nothing happens. The great cosmic joke is that life continues, > exactly as before. Death is a myth. 'Wherever you go, there you > are'. There is no dying and no going somewhere else. Its all a big > joke. We experience as much change going to the mall as we do > during 'death'.
How do you know that? I know myself as both the wave and the ocean, and I figure death will be something along the lines of the wave dissolving back into the ocean. But, I honestly don't truly know what happens after death, and I don't believe anyone else does either. I find laughable the notion that my atman/soul will be sent off to be tortured for chanting the Gayatri mantra in an insufficiently pure state or not worshipping Yahweh in the form of a pagan, false Messiah man-god. But, in fact, I really don't know that either of those won't happen.
