Life and/or Death

There is presently no official study of the big topic in everyone's life: death. Nevertheless it continues to be an important subject in many circles. Unfortunately, none of those circles have any notable government grants or research group investors, because death has no tangible bearing on the physical world that people involve themselves in full-time. Existence seems to be about working every day at a job in the hope of obtaining money, so that one may use this money to get food, thereby subsisting and continuing the cycle of reality. This is separate from imagination, of course, which is exclusively that which is not real. In fact, some of the most imaginative artists of the world are only successful because they have manifested their ideas in concrete form to market in the real world.

So society has created a huge rift between reality and the mind. Modern religion and science both assure this by encouraging belief in life experience as being completely separate from the senses, and mental conclusions beyond real life are termed fantasy. People are led to believe that perception is simply a biochemical reaction that provides them with information for their cognitive thought process, which no longer occurs when life ends.

The result of this belief system is that it completely eliminates the importance of existence beyond the physical body, so all of the questions about death persist in society. People try their best to be healthy and happy, but it is not known what the consequences of one's demise may be. Death itself is a given, but there is a noticeable lack of accounts of the death experience itself. There are always the obsolete views of the ancient peoples, which possess colorful specifics of the journey of the spirit as it progresses beyond the physical plane over a river, through a tunnel, up a set of stairs, etc. The interaction with the deities is a must, then the long-awaited and well-deserved R&R in some paradise or other.

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