--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> 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?
Two things: karma, and our life here. Isn't every day here a mystery of 'dying' in one state of attention, one perspective, and being instantly 'reborn' into another? Do any of us really know for certain what will happen 10 seconds from now, 10 minutes from now? Not really-- but our karma gives us clues as to what will probably happen. So is the transition from this life to the next predicated on our karma. Its as big or small a mystery as we want to make it. And another point to consider- is there anything we have faced 'on this earth' that we haven't been able to comprehend, to deal with, to make sense of? Why would death be any different? Perhaps it is a dissolution of sorts, though our conscious awareness remains. What is so different about any of what I have written and our life Right Now? I just don't get why people see death as all that different from life. Seems to be exactly the same thing.
