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Showing posts with label Afterlife. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Chapter 19: Anatomy of the Soul, Afterlife, and Reincarnation

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Phenomenology of World Religions ©
Chapter 19
Anatomy of the Soul and Reincarnation
Death of Socrates, Giambettino Cignaroli
Death has several descriptions in both physical and spiritual concepts. I guess the most simplest description is at Plato, Stanford University’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
Death is life’s ending … However, life’s ending is one thing, and the condition of having life over is another. ‘Death’ can refer to either.
To me …
Death is a dream from which one cannot wake, the soul released from physical entrapment. It is a dream of chaos and all that which makes us fearful or which is pleasant. In that lies the true description and comparison of life after death and the difference between the concept of Heaven (Paradise) and Hell (Hades). It is all in the mind of the beholder, like beauty; the Dream Walker controls the dream and therefore may control their fate. If the soul be the spark of the divine, then we should protect it throughout our material lives. 

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