An idea of the hereafter
Man naturally feels that he is ill-equipped to live in this world and that he has to bring something into his life as a bridge to cross in order to be the person he is supposed to be.
You say air, food, a spouse - and all that is correct. We can even get mathematical about it and say that man is an endomorphism over the state of his body associated with energy consumption (in the usual sense).
We are driven forward, yet we have an idea of perfection. Only that we cannot reach that idea ever, for it includes omniscience, an immediate understanding of what is the right thing to do for any person and how to make him do it. I'm talking about an idea of authority associated with entities from the hereafter, for we don't assume that they would learn; they already know.
For those of us, who have experienced revelation, the coming of another mind into ours, this has an immediate veracity, although perhaps not a logically proven one, that is to say as far as the omniscience is concerned, whether such entities hail from the hereafter is another matter, but that is precisely what I'm going to propose here: that the hereafter is a state in which consciousness is linked to all consciousnesses in space and time and that the existence in the hereafter consists of guiding all those consciousnesses in space and time that are related in nature, or, differently put, that one could uplift all loved spirits in space and time. (No time would pass in the hereafter, all guidance would take place in the same moment.)
There is mild biblical support for this idea, mostly Christ talking about sending his angels. Perhaps the guidance only concerns future consciousnesses from the point of death, perhaps not. The image of singing God's praises before his throne would be a metaphor for the guidance in agreement with his intent.
At the very least it is a satisfying idea. And there is also empirical support, not only by revelations, but also by a rather common feeling of some perfect entity expecting us to do something. What it expects depends on what we think it does, that is
You say air, food, a spouse - and all that is correct. We can even get mathematical about it and say that man is an endomorphism over the state of his body associated with energy consumption (in the usual sense).
We are driven forward, yet we have an idea of perfection. Only that we cannot reach that idea ever, for it includes omniscience, an immediate understanding of what is the right thing to do for any person and how to make him do it. I'm talking about an idea of authority associated with entities from the hereafter, for we don't assume that they would learn; they already know.
For those of us, who have experienced revelation, the coming of another mind into ours, this has an immediate veracity, although perhaps not a logically proven one, that is to say as far as the omniscience is concerned, whether such entities hail from the hereafter is another matter, but that is precisely what I'm going to propose here: that the hereafter is a state in which consciousness is linked to all consciousnesses in space and time and that the existence in the hereafter consists of guiding all those consciousnesses in space and time that are related in nature, or, differently put, that one could uplift all loved spirits in space and time. (No time would pass in the hereafter, all guidance would take place in the same moment.)
There is mild biblical support for this idea, mostly Christ talking about sending his angels. Perhaps the guidance only concerns future consciousnesses from the point of death, perhaps not. The image of singing God's praises before his throne would be a metaphor for the guidance in agreement with his intent.
At the very least it is a satisfying idea. And there is also empirical support, not only by revelations, but also by a rather common feeling of some perfect entity expecting us to do something. What it expects depends on what we think it does, that is
- if it listens, it expects us to prove ourselves worthy (all of my life I felt that you were listening watching for ways to help me stay in tune - if we accept Roger Hodgson's testimony),
- if it smiles, it expects us to believe (that I know myself, but there is also testimony from Bernadette Soubirous and Philip Kindred Dick),
- if it looks sternly, it expects us to be patient and accept its higher authority (that I know myself),
- if it looks evenly and majestically, it expects us to act on our belief (that I know myself).
Labels: 28, formalisierung, gesetze, institutionen, metaphysik, präsentation, wahrnehmungen, ἰδέα, φιλοσοφία
Eingetragen Am/um
22:25
