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Mere tricks and tomfoolery. I wouldn't begrudge anyone's belief system, but trying to thrust it through the analytical/logical ringer is asking for trouble.
The rational/analytic deals in the physical, what we can abley comprehend here and now. Of course, each person has varying degrees of rational/logical ability, so how can we measure this up?
Objectively, it might not jive for certain people. I've countered many 'tech' guys who need logical proof for the existence of heaven/hell, demons/angels, a higher being, us being spiritual, and anything else NOT scientific. I can't provide that. Nobody can. Anytime SOMEONE has what seems to be near locked proof, it's blown apart as hallucination, creations of the mind, delusions, ghosts, etc.
Parts of the scientific community drown out paranormal work, because it would seemingly RUPTURE what they study. The scientific community tends to be very diametrically opposed to that of spirit/etheric/ghost/after life work, for whatever reason you see fit to attach.
There's book like "A course in miracles" which is purportedly written by 2 college professors/phd's, who had a very strained relationship as co-workers and life ingeneral and had asked a "higher power" for help. What came was a thousand page manifest supposedly spoken by Jesus or the Holy Spirit via the mind. It's one of the most widely read books, is very straightforward, and is meant to be WHAT Jesus was actually saying as the purveyor of God's message.
Another book, "the disappearance of the universe" purports that Gary Renard had a long-lived relationship with 2 "ascended" masters for 9 years up in Maine. They appeared one day to him as out of thin air, and continually visited imparting their wisdom on him. However, ANYBODY could write them off as koos, nonbelievers, charlatans, and even question that all this was the work of the devil.
Christians might say that, as they'd believe anything NOT Jesus or God is the devil. Yet in disappearance of the universe, the crux of the relationship is that THIS whole experience we know IS NOT life. We, in fact, SPLIT from God, so we could experience ourselves, and that yes, we are SEPARATE EGOS, trying to live out an abnormal existence. The source of our pain is because we stress this fakeness around us so much, when at the very CORE of life, we're ALL the same materials, and possibly the same spirit connection.
Why or How?
A few reasons.
God is God because God is perfect.
If God is perfect WHY would he make earth to be like this.
If EVERYTHING is God, then we are with God. God's perfection assumes we've never LEFT God, because God is everywhere. Such particles cannot coexist in the same SPACE/TIME point, so we are in fact, there with God now, only having a DEEP mental dream/sleep acted out by the ego we chose. Once you ditch the extreme connection to that fake identity, all the crap goes with it.
There's more to it, but I've read far and wide enough to get a deep breadth of knowledge on it.
But then I come full circle, so what?
Your ego, yourself, might not LIKE what I say, because it's not UPLIFTING your current beliefs. Normally, people FILTER things through their current belief system, and buy or sell what they're told based on how it effects their reality.
So the whole debate on AFTER life is mute, because one's view of AFTER life, essentially dictates HOW THEY'D live.
-If people felt we're all ONE; not separate countries, or races, or sexes, or sizes, shapes, or colors, would we act distant, indifferent, biased, prejudiced, bigoted, or careless?
-If people feel there's only LIGHT outs, then the prevailing attitude is, GET WHAT I CAN NOW.
-If people feel that, doing good heightens one's energy level, thereby ascending you several planes of energy to what is known as HEAVEN, and by doing wrong/evil, you diminish your energy level, and go to what's know as HELL, people would be mroe conscious of their decisions NOW.
To me pain of ANY kind, originates with the PERSON, and their grasp of reality. Take away humanity, and the earth REMAINS the same. In fact, it improves, because we are not WRECKING mother earth. Not polluting it. However, we are here. The only heaven or hell exists in the meanings man makes up in his mind. What he attaches to what he sees. What he/she expects. It's our connection to society that brings that about.
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To me, there is a mandate to bring down such belief systems so what we are all HERE AND NOW. TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET. SELF CENTERED. It's fine to be self-conscious, and watch our for oneself, but to impinge your existence on other's is unworthy of life.
Humans will ALWAYS try to discover what our purpose is. What reality is. What we're here for. HOW we got here. That's our sole journey. More importantly, it's about discovering YOU. Figuring you out.
It would seem MORE probable, that every person is an evolved soul (yet doesn't know it), and the rationale basis for one's ability NOW, is having lived many previous lives. Maybe they're smarter or prettier or more adept or athletic. All of that is encoded into their spirit UNTIL they've achieved enlightenment and awareness and BAM, they're outta here.
Take what you like, it's your life, and your soul if you believe. I gain nothing by educating another person or believing the same thing. I do live to explore such things because I find it fascinating.
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The same leap in mental thinking it took to cross the Atlantic eons ago, and the same leap it took in thinking to go to the moon, or place the Sun at the center of the universe is what it will take CURRENT generations to KNOW something different than what we can ONLY detect with the 5 senses filtered through a biased, animalistic, and emotional mind.
A-Unit