Life after death

Imagine someone who is an asshole: selfish, mean, false. At the end of his life, he donates money to charity and expects to be warmly welcomed into the kingdom of heaven when he dies in the same way he expects to be warmly welcomed to a luxury nightclub, just because he is rich.

How can you expect to get good grades if you don't study? If you are a Hindu, how can you expect to get a decent reincarnation if you have been an asshole here in this life?

Maybe it is irrelevant how you live your life. Maybe life isn't a school. Maybe all people go to heaven when they die. Maybe all your deceased relatives in the spirit world will be happy to see you again. Maybe there is no life after death. Who knows?

How do you deal with snake oil salesmen and tricksters?

What do you refuse to realize? What beliefs do you refuse to let go of?

Almost all people are holding on to crazy ideas: political ideas, religious beliefs, weird worldviews, self-images, outdated scientific paradigms. Why is it so painful and hard to question one's misunderstandings? 

In 1945 many Germans refused to see that they had allowed themselves to be bewitched by an idiotic ideology. Today most people refuse to see that there is no future for humankind. Advanced technologies will not save us. We will ruin this planet. We're like drug addicts, addicted to delusions; we simply can't get enough. 

You know that there are plenty of fraudsters, false prophets, and fake gurus in this world. How can you find out if also you have been duped? Which method should you use?

Should you rely on your intuition or gut feeling? (He seems to be reliable. I like him.) Should you rely on reasoning? 

How do you explain that science for many years was convinced that Omega-3 oil is good for preventing heart disease, and then came to the conclusion that it has no such effect at all, etc,?

Hello!

How are you?

How is life over there?

I'm still here, still wondering about the same old questions.

Life is strange, isn't it?

So, how do you explain that some people have to experience so much suffering, pain, poverty, and misery while other people live their lives like spoiled upper-class brats at an endless garden party?

Why is life so unfair? Is it a God that arrange things this way? Is it angels or evil spirits that are responsible? Is it fate, karma or the biological evolution that dictate the rules?

Well-off and fortunate highbrows are teaching the sore losers about the importance of optimism and positive thinking. If all the unfortunate suckers only could understand the benefits of a positive outlook on life they could also be rich, healthy and successful.

Have you ever read an advice columnist that advocate negative thinking, that life is awful and unfair, that war, greed, and exploitation is ruining life here on earth?

We who have experienced strong synchronicities understand that we are puppets and that someone is pulling the strings. But not always. In fact, mostly we are puppets without strings.

Why do we try so hard to ruin each other's lives?

Up until the middle of the 19^th- century slavery was accepted by the Christian churches. Today Christians still speak about the importance of ethics and morality. How dare they? Why are they not ashamed? 1800 years of moral putridity and corruption.

Not many seem to understand that most of us are mentally ill and in urgent need of help. Meditation, faith, health food or hiking in the woods are not sufficient for healing. 

Materialism is a mental construct

Materialists assume that both the thinker and the thoughts are physical phenomena, somehow created in the brain. They believe that nothing exists except matter.

Dualists, such as Plato, Descartes, and most Christians, hold that spirit and matter are distinct substances.

Others believe that the material world is an illusion, Maya, and that only the spirit world is real. (Without observers, there wouldn't be any physical reality.)

However, what is matter, really? Electrons and quarks? And what is an electron, a particle, like a tiny, tiny grain of sand, or a wave, like light?

What is dark matter? Roughly 80 percent of the universe is made up of dark matter. The physicists have no idea of what kind of matter this is; they just know it must be there, according to their calculations. So they call it dark matter.

And what is the spirit world made of?

Materialism and spirituality are outdated concepts. There may be just one world that is both material and spiritual: wind and rain, rocks and life forms, thoughts and conscious thinkers, illusions, dreams, and ideas, synchronicities, and various mystical Psi phenomena...

And there may be tons of universes out there.

Materialists don't know what matter is, and spiritually oriented people don't know what spirit is. It's a waste of time to ponder over such things. It is much more important to try to figure out how to live.

The electrochemical soul

You don't want to question your beliefs, views, and assumptions. You can question other peoples beliefs but not your own. Even dedicated believers in the scientific method have a hard time questioning their core assumptions.

What is a belief and what is an assumption? What are they made of? Chemicals? Electromagnetic fields? And, what feels threatened when your beliefs and assumptions are seriously challenged?

If someone steps on your toe you will feel pain in your toe. And if someone hits you on your nose, you feel pain in your nose. But, what if someone is questioning your core beliefs, where do you feel this discomfort?

What is the ego made of? What is the self made of? Electrochemical activity in the brain? What is electricity, really? What are electrons made of? And what is an electron, really, a particle or a wave?

Don't trust yourself

Three thousand years ago people took for granted that the world was flat. A thousand years ago people still believed in brownies and trolls, ghosts and witches. People knew that the king was appointed by God and considered trading in slaves as a legitimate business. Today most people think that such ideas are awful and stupid. 

If humanity would live on and evolve for another thousand years, which is not likely, they will, of course, say about us that we were complete idiots and that our scientific, religious and political ideas were uncivilized, vulgar and crazy. 

Your thoughts, views, and assumptions are products of your culture and this era. Materialism, capitalism, sanctimonious religiosity and meaninglessness are not ultimate truths.

Death and dying

How many years have you left? What do you think? 30 years? 10 years? 2 years? When will it be your turn to die?

Will you die in a hospital bed or in a car crash? Will you drown; will you kill yourself with sleeping pills? Will you die from cancer or a brain hemorrhage? Will you suffer tremendously? What do you think?

Do you sometimes wonder what it feels like to die? Do you sometimes wonder what it's like to be dead? Is death like an eternal deep sleep or will you end up in heaven or hell? What do you think?

How many more years has humankind left? Will all life on earth go extinct? Will we all die in a nuclear war or because of the climate change?

What will the universe look like if no one is there to see it? What is the universe made of? Practically nothing; 99,99% empty space? Emptiness between the electrons and the nucleus of the atom?  A few electrons and quarks here and there in the endless void?

What is light made of? What are thoughts made of? Electric fields? What is an electric field? Is an electron a particle or a wave? What do you think?

What is consciousness? You wake up in the morning and falls asleep at night. Is there a switch somewhere in the brain? 

What is all this about?