Post by onenineeighteight on Mar 2, 2014 3:38:27 GMT -6
The following text is taken from my tumblr page (murhasuu.tumblr.com), in which I post different thoughts and experiences I deem worth sharing. I feel, that maybe some of those thoughts could find a place from this forum also.
One night I was having a dream. At the end of that dream, a sentence occurred to me. A voice said to me: “Dead before being born.” - not in the context of being stillborn, but rather in a context of us all being “pre-dead” before given life in material realm through conception and birth. At first this notion seemed like nothing. It simply sounded nonsensical dream gibberish. A few days later I was watching a documentary about The Tibetan Book of the Dead. There was a brief notion within that documentary, which stated the possibility of consciousness being eternal - kinda like conservative quantity of energy (the law of conservation of energy states, that energy can’t be created or destroyed, but it can change into different forms). This again led me to remember the famous slogan (or rather the final part of it) by Carl Sagan: “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
Now, for the sake of argument, let’s take all the notions above, and assume that the universe is a conscious, expedient “being” as a whole, and that our consciousness comes from the universe, instead of manifesting itself through the function of our brains. Let’s say, that the cosmos is some kind of collective – essentially nigh eternal, nigh infinite and nigh omnipresent by our measurements – universal consciousness: what is the purpose of life in such reality?
If we assume, that the universe is a conscious “being”, we can also assume it to have some (or all) attributes that come with a conscious mind. Namely self-reflection and notion of time (acknowledging one’s self as a temporal being with a past, and a future) in this case. If we wish to understand certain attributes, we also need to study and understand their opposites (for example warm-cold, good-evil, light-dark, limited-unlimited, infinite-finite, etc.). What this means, is that maybe the universe created life in order to create a finite, subjective, and confined environment for (parts of) itself, in which it can better understand itself. Maybe humans, literally, are a way for cosmos to understand itself.
So what happens to our supposed eternal consciousness when we die? If consciousness has conservative qualities, we can only assume, that it changes its form and returns, with all its knowledge, back to the collective consciousness, which is cosmos. Does this actually happen? The truth is we don’t really know – for death truly is one of our final unknown frontiers. It is one of the big questions we may never get answers to, but it won’t keep us from trying.
I know there isn’t any hard science or evidence (that I know of) to back up any of the notions within this text, and that it’s rather a poetic work of a fancied mind. However, I - and hopefully whoever is reading this - found these notions quite awe-inspiring. That in itself can be worth the while.
One night I was having a dream. At the end of that dream, a sentence occurred to me. A voice said to me: “Dead before being born.” - not in the context of being stillborn, but rather in a context of us all being “pre-dead” before given life in material realm through conception and birth. At first this notion seemed like nothing. It simply sounded nonsensical dream gibberish. A few days later I was watching a documentary about The Tibetan Book of the Dead. There was a brief notion within that documentary, which stated the possibility of consciousness being eternal - kinda like conservative quantity of energy (the law of conservation of energy states, that energy can’t be created or destroyed, but it can change into different forms). This again led me to remember the famous slogan (or rather the final part of it) by Carl Sagan: “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
Now, for the sake of argument, let’s take all the notions above, and assume that the universe is a conscious, expedient “being” as a whole, and that our consciousness comes from the universe, instead of manifesting itself through the function of our brains. Let’s say, that the cosmos is some kind of collective – essentially nigh eternal, nigh infinite and nigh omnipresent by our measurements – universal consciousness: what is the purpose of life in such reality?
If we assume, that the universe is a conscious “being”, we can also assume it to have some (or all) attributes that come with a conscious mind. Namely self-reflection and notion of time (acknowledging one’s self as a temporal being with a past, and a future) in this case. If we wish to understand certain attributes, we also need to study and understand their opposites (for example warm-cold, good-evil, light-dark, limited-unlimited, infinite-finite, etc.). What this means, is that maybe the universe created life in order to create a finite, subjective, and confined environment for (parts of) itself, in which it can better understand itself. Maybe humans, literally, are a way for cosmos to understand itself.
So what happens to our supposed eternal consciousness when we die? If consciousness has conservative qualities, we can only assume, that it changes its form and returns, with all its knowledge, back to the collective consciousness, which is cosmos. Does this actually happen? The truth is we don’t really know – for death truly is one of our final unknown frontiers. It is one of the big questions we may never get answers to, but it won’t keep us from trying.
I know there isn’t any hard science or evidence (that I know of) to back up any of the notions within this text, and that it’s rather a poetic work of a fancied mind. However, I - and hopefully whoever is reading this - found these notions quite awe-inspiring. That in itself can be worth the while.