10-18-2024, 01:54 AM
I haven't really considered the expectations much, but I do know that it's possible for the consciousness to separate from the physical body for somewhat brief periods as this has happened to me on several occasions. This has only occurred while either going to sleep or waking up though, the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states, respectively, and yes, I'm absolutely certain I wasn't dreaming. I do know the difference between dreams, lucid dreams, and being fully awake and aware.
Can't say exactly what the implications of the above might be or how it relates to being dead though as I was still quite alive. Maybe the consciousness might/could exist as disembodied for some unknown duration prior some other event taking place in which many may consider reincarnation.
Sometimes I feel that the physical vessel is not given the consideration it deserves in defining of consciousness but can't really say either way how relevant/irrelevant it is. DNA does define specific individuality, so if consciousness does emanate from the DNA, or the DNA is at least a contributing factor then that would seem to be leaning more towards the physical, but even the physical is just an alternate manifestation of energy.
Perhaps some of the beings (if any) that evolved in the nine billion years prior the creation of the Earth knows, maybe they don't. Maybe only the primordial God knows, but I wouldn't be so quick as to assign any such attribute of "knowing" (as it is defined or experienced anthropomorphically) to a primordial god. It is true though that since we emerge from the primordial that we might resemble it microcosmically, but figuratively, if the primordial were to be represented as only the finest crystal vase, and that vase were to be shattered to countless pieces, then our individual existences would be like the smallest slivers/remnants of the original vase – from but not exactly the same (most is missing).
Can't say exactly what the implications of the above might be or how it relates to being dead though as I was still quite alive. Maybe the consciousness might/could exist as disembodied for some unknown duration prior some other event taking place in which many may consider reincarnation.
Sometimes I feel that the physical vessel is not given the consideration it deserves in defining of consciousness but can't really say either way how relevant/irrelevant it is. DNA does define specific individuality, so if consciousness does emanate from the DNA, or the DNA is at least a contributing factor then that would seem to be leaning more towards the physical, but even the physical is just an alternate manifestation of energy.
Perhaps some of the beings (if any) that evolved in the nine billion years prior the creation of the Earth knows, maybe they don't. Maybe only the primordial God knows, but I wouldn't be so quick as to assign any such attribute of "knowing" (as it is defined or experienced anthropomorphically) to a primordial god. It is true though that since we emerge from the primordial that we might resemble it microcosmically, but figuratively, if the primordial were to be represented as only the finest crystal vase, and that vase were to be shattered to countless pieces, then our individual existences would be like the smallest slivers/remnants of the original vase – from but not exactly the same (most is missing).
