Reply #19: Believe we cease to exist physically but continue to exist. [View All]

[Stevepol]

Our post-physical existence is like a carry-over of our dream world. So in a way we are living beyond the body even now at night in our dreams. At death we just lose the conscious physical part that responds to material stimuli, etc. and begin to live in the ucs parts, the parts we can glimpse thru dreams and intuitive feelings at times. Swedenborg says we don't go anywhere, just drop the outer facade and become our inner desires. What are you on the inside? That's what you will become at death. No change in that, just that you lose the physical aspect of it.

And I believe there are other dimensions of that as well. But it's really experience, not words, so talking about it will always mis-represent it to some extent. We "grow" into it, a personal thing: if you really believe you die and that's it, you will perhaps just do that, cease to have a csness, at least for awhile, unless you're awakened by the prayers of others for you or just by your own slowly rousing csness.

It's too big a subject really. Look at the night sky. The earth is just the tiniest speck on an infinite seashore, billions and billions of worlds beyond this one. Yet the soul part of us is somehow related to all this around us.

I don't believe the knowledge of this other world comes from faith so much as experience and faith in your own "inner" experience. If you constantly deny the real inner experiences you have, how can you have much of an experience when the body is gone? The only thing you will have then will be "inner" experience.