Do you think consciousness resides in the brain and when the brain dies, so does consciousness? Or do you believe that Soul exists and we transcend our physical bodies?
I was a massive skeptic until last year. I thought that people believed in Spirit/Soul etc because it's what they wanted to believe because it made it easier to cope with death. But I had a very profound experience during the passing of someone very close to me which shook my belief system to it's very core and completely changed my opinion. I now believe that all living things have and energy that survives before and after physical life.
Sorry wont give an answer - the question is not in a correct format for a poll. Mind you I hope for Martins sake there's WWE.
Gladly I very clearly saw the soul/spirit/energy of that person leaving their body as they were dying. It totally freaked me out, I thought I must have been hallucinating or seeing things due to stress/tiredness I kept saying to myself - 'this can't be real' - 'there must be another explanation' It was made of thousands of strands of golden light. And looked a bit like an x-ray After a while of denial, trying to convince myself that it wasn't happening, I simply had to conclude that it was real.
I have actually been pronounced dead twice (that's the truth). Bit confusing for me now as I find it hard to work out if I'm actually alive or dead. People tell me I'm alive, however, I'm not convinced.
I believe in the afterlife! If this life is not a practice for what is to come then what is the point of life itself? The never ending cycle of reproduction is pointless if there is no end goal, the wait for christs return will be a bloody long one so i suppose the question becomes what is the meaning of life?? I have have lost freinds and family who i no have visited me since there is something else outhere but none of us know quite what it is!
are we not merley combinations of atoms changing throughout life due to reacting with our enviroment... "life" is pointless as it's basically a chemical reaction
A table is just a bunch of atoms vibrating in space, but we perceive it as a solid mass. Love is just a chemical reaction, but we perceive it as so much more. Meaning is something we attribute to stuff to make sense of the world around us. But why do we do it? If we were simply atoms charging through space, why the need for meaning?
that would completely freak me out too! I have 'felt' a presence and thought i was being visited by my dad. I've never felt so...safe. Weird feeling, though it was a while back, and now the doubt is setting back in.
Physicists may as well give up and become religious. The more we understand, the less we know http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
