I happen to have memories of other lives, which sometimes has practical benefits and is sometimes pesky.
However, I also observe that almost nothing in Nature has a through-and-through pattern. It's pretty much all cyclic. Matter and energy are not lost, merely transformed. Our bodies are formed from the ash of ancient stars that exploded and scattered their remnants across the cosmos, and here we are, made of carbon and oxygen and a dab of hydrogen ... alive and wondering if there is life after death. So there's my scientific take on this: the continuation of consciousness and recycling of souls is congruent with observed natural phenomena throughout the universe.
>> What cause have you to believe that the science is wrong? <<
It's not wrong. It's just incomplete, and they're trying to measure music with a yardstick.
It's not as cut and dry as all that yet. I mean, for millennia we were SO SURE God existed, and we had all this proof of His divine works, etc-- and now the most dominant portion of the freethinking community, as well as a lot of meh-I-don't-even-think-about-it-too-much folks, are atheist. Maybe this is just another theory. Personally, I'm still skeptical that science has-- or perhaps even can-- prove everything regarding consciousness. (Though I don't think that means we should stop trying
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Just because intuitition can be pseudoscientific doesn't mean that science can't be pseudointuitive. In seeking to collapse the meaning of our subjective conscious experience into a stream of purposeless neurochemical signals, contemporary science has lost it's way. Rather than seeking to answer the fundamental questions of human existence, the contemporary anti-mystic seeks to un-ask the question and disown the fundamental reality of human existence itself
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Scientific empiricism since the Enlightenment has been invaluable in bringing us out of the age of pre-Copernican solipsism which held humanity in a superstitious prison for thousands of years, but the current crisis we face has to do with an over-correction of this drive for objectivity. The universe is both objective and subjective, material and mystery. I agree with this so much.
I agree! The end of Solipsism had to come to more modern man's observations.
To say that nothing exists outside of "self"; that only my Mind and what I could think of, exists, is "self-centeredness" in the extreme.
To paraphrase, "if you stab me, do I not bleed?" Therefore, if I bleed, I must exist and if "you" stabbed me, you must exist. :o)
Although the Solipsists idea that one's own mind is all that exists, more or less goes along with the (general) a-theist's idea that death is the end of existence for the consciousness, in that there is no "super being" or God. :o)
i don't think science is the only way to answer our questions:) (at least not nowadays science) i myself believe that after this life i'm going somewhere. it's true that maybe i'm unconsciously just scared of the thought that there's gonna be nothing after this life. but most of the time i feel like i will be going home after i die:)
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I happen to have memories of other lives, which sometimes has practical benefits and is sometimes pesky.
However, I also observe that almost nothing in Nature has a through-and-through pattern. It's pretty much all cyclic. Matter and energy are not lost, merely transformed. Our bodies are formed from the ash of ancient stars that exploded and scattered their remnants across the cosmos, and here we are, made of carbon and oxygen and a dab of hydrogen ... alive and wondering if there is life after death. So there's my scientific take on this: the continuation of consciousness and recycling of souls is congruent with observed natural phenomena throughout the universe.
>> What cause have you to believe that the science is wrong? <<
It's not wrong. It's just incomplete, and they're trying to measure music with a yardstick.
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I agree with this so much.
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I agree! The end of Solipsism had to come to more modern man's observations.
To say that nothing exists outside of "self"; that only my Mind and what I could think of, exists, is "self-centeredness" in the extreme.
To paraphrase, "if you stab me, do I not bleed?" Therefore, if I bleed, I must exist and if "you" stabbed me, you must exist. :o)
Although the Solipsists idea that one's own mind is all that exists, more or less goes along with the (general) a-theist's idea that death is the end of existence for the consciousness, in that there is no "super being" or God. :o)
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Unobservable phenomenon like teh afterlife exist outside of science's domain.
Thus, the concept of science suggesting there is no afterlife is out of context.
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i myself believe that after this life i'm going somewhere.
it's true that maybe i'm unconsciously just scared of the thought that there's gonna be nothing after this life.
but most of the time i feel like i will be going home after i die:)
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