Thursday, September 22, 2011

In The Gut

Live Science: Belief in God Boils Down to a Gut Feeling
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2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Its all a leap of faith. I was knocked unconscious when I had my heart attack, but until they woke me up or revived me I had absolutely no experience I can recall. They however did gave me some kind of drug that wipes memory clean I was told afterwards, so even if I had any so called near death experiences as many recount, I had no memory of it anyway. I had the opposite experience when I was dying of Pneumonia at 9 yrs.old in 1958 and they shot adrenaline into my heart. Right before they did that I was experiencing a kind of tunnel of light and my consciousness was centered inwardly is how I remember it. I awoke with a profound feeling that I had barely survived death. It always stayed with me from then on. At 21 I had one of those super real dreams of being in a place of dazzling living light and feeling as if I was truly home. I didn't want to leave that place/experience but had to awaken. Again, I never forgot it and it was with me till my heart attack placed a huge sense of doubt in me. I'm not sure now if anything lies beyond the exit of death? I believe it does and that some kind of greater consciousness has created and continues to create our reality. But, its all a huge leap of faith nowadays. I will say this however, if NOTHING exists except the void we won't know it anyway, so its kind of irrelevant isn't it?

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Jim Sande said...

Interesting story GK, thanks for sharing it.

Back in 1980 I began to formally study Buddhism under a very good teacher. That relationship remains today. I go along with the party line on after death. Long story short, the idea is that there is an intermediate consciousness that remains after death. Where that intermediate consciousness ends up depends on the depth of one's fundamental wisdom and the clarity of that understanding.

I'm not a void kind a guy. I think one thing that is missing is the understanding of how rare our lives truly are. We take our lives for granted all the time.

11:05 PM

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