Sayings

I was brave enough to do stupid things, and stupid enough to do brave things, but not smart enough to do stupid brave or brave stupid things.

THE GREAT AFTERLIFE

A Debate Between Michael Shermer & Deepak Chopra

http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/the-great-afterlife-debate/

Deepak Chopra's Types of immortality

How Awaretheory is different from Deepak Chopra's Types of immortality

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.)

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Can consciousness survive the body’s death?

Is there mind outside the brain?

Can we know the states of consciousness that belong to the afterlife without dying?

Does consciousness have a basis outside time and space?

Deepak Chopra's Theory of after death experiences

How Awaretheory is different from Deepak Chopra's Theory of after death experiences

The physical body stops functioning. The dying person may not be aware of this but eventually knows that it has occurred.

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.

The dying person feels lighter, suddenly freed of limitation.

The mind and sometimes the senses continue to operate. Gradually, however, what is perceived is non-physical.

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.

Personality and memory begin to fade, but the sense of “I” remains.

This “I” has an overwhelming sense of moving on to another phase of existence.