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| THE GREAT AFTERLIFE
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| A Debate Between Michael Shermer & Deepak Chopra
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| http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-great-afterlife-debate/
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| [[Deepak Chopra's Types of immortality]]
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| [[How Awaretheory is different from Deepak Chopra's Types of immortality]]
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| Paradise: Your soul finds itself in a perfected world surrounding God. You go to Paradise as a reward and never leave. (If you are bad, you go to Satan’s home and never leave it.)
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| The Godhead: Your soul returns to God, but not in any particular place. You discover the location of God as a timeless state infused with his presence
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| The Spirit World: Your soul rests in a realm of departed spirits. You are drawn back to those you loved in this life. Or you rejoin your ancestors, who are gathered with the great Spirit.
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| Transcendence: Your soul performs a vanishing act in which a person dissolves, either quickly or gradually. The pure soul rejoins the sea of consciousness from which it was born.
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| Transmigration (or Metempsychosis): Your soul is caught in the cycle of rebirth. Depending on one’s karma, each soul rises or falls from lower to higher life forms — and even may be reborn in objects. The cycle continues eternally until your soul escapes through higher realization.
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| Awakening: Your soul arrives in the light. You see with complete clarity for the first time, realizing the truth of existence that was masked by being in a physical body.
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| Dissolution: Eternity is nothingness. As the chemical components of your body return to basic atoms and molecules, the consciousness created by the brain disappears completely. You are no more.
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| Can consciousness survive the body’s death?
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| Is there mind outside the brain?
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| Can we know the states of consciousness that belong to the afterlife without dying?
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| Does consciousness have a basis outside time and space?
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| [[Deepak Chopra's Theory of after death experiences]]
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| [[How Awaretheory is different from Deepak Chopra's Theory of after death experiences]]
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| The physical body stops functioning. The dying person may not be aware of this but eventually knows that it has occurred.
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| The physical world vanishes. This can happen by degrees; there can be a sense of floating upward or of looking down on familiar places as they recede.
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| The dying person feels lighter, suddenly freed of limitation.
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| The mind and sometimes the senses continue to operate. Gradually, however, what is perceived is non-physical.
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| A presence grows that is felt to be divine. This presence can be clothed in a light or in the body of angels or gods. The presence can communicate to the dying person.
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| Personality and memory begin to fade, but the sense of “I” remains.
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| This “I” has an overwhelming sense of moving on to another phase of existence.
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