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DICHOTOMY OF LIFE AND DEATH

Do you ever think about how everything is a dichotomy?

Life and DeathLife and death. Order and chaos. Good and evil.

There’s two sides to every coin; heads and tails.

You can’t have a front without a back. An up without a down. An in without an out. And you sure can’t have a top without a bottom.

Nor can you have life without death.. or death without life.

George BurnsDo you remember the movie “O God” with George Burns as the big guy?

The little girl who co-starred (can’t recall her name, but she was excellent) challenged God to prove his existence. He really had to think and then he told her about opposites. He said you can’t have hot without cold, happy without sad, full without hungry, safe without danger, and he went on with a lot more dichotomies. He said that it was him, God, that made it all happen.

She took it all in and asked what his opposite was. He replied without hesitation “The Devil”. She asked how to protect herself from the Devil. God told her to always believe in God and ask for God’s help.

Just like I do every day and I hope you do, too.

But my vision of God may be a little different than yours.

God B&WI don’t buy into the conventional religions which work a fear/reward factor into forcing you to follow the herd. I don’t see God a vain old white man in flowing robes sitting on a throne in the sky and meddling in the day to day affairs of individual humans; a God who you have to suck-up to in order to get to heaven, or keep out of hell.

No, I see God in everything. From the stars and the sea, the trees and the critters, and in other people. I see God as that non-local plane of infinite intelligence that makes it all happen.

And I believe that we’re simply a part of God and that we can ask for and get guidance, if we just believe in God and know what we want when we ask.

And it’s up to us as individuals to take responsibility to do the right thing, not the wrong thing.

Right and WrongHmm. Another dichotomy. Right and wrong.

Just like life and death.

IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH?

In my opinion, yes.

LifeBut it depends on how you think of life.

If you think of life as the physical part of your existence – of course you’re immortal.

A basic principle of physics is that matter cannot be created or destroyed; only changed. And your body has been changing since the moment you were conceived. Most of the cells in your body are not the same ones you had a year ago. That’s why we eat; to supply energy and matter for replacing the cells that ‘die’ off.

CellsWhen you ‘die’, you’re cells decompose and go on in the stream of life. If you’re buried, your body rests in containment, but still goes on to becoming part of the earth. If you’re cremated, most of your mass goes up in smoke and into the atmosphere, and your ashes go wherever your family places them – in the water, under a tree, or fired off in a cannon like I know of how one lady went out (True story). Or if you ‘die’ in the ocean, the crabs eat you. Hey! They gotta eat, too.

But what about your soul?

Soul 2I like the word soul because it simply labels that intangible part of your existence that provides ‘life’ to everything that exists. It can no more be created or destroyed anymore than your cells. It only changes from one form of consciousness to another.

Ever hear of the term animism?

It’s the belief that everything has a soul. A life force. The essence to existence. The conduit of consciousness. The intangible field that connects with all else including humans, animals, plants, celestial bodies, and the forces of nature.

consciousnessI believe that when you ‘die’, your soul transcends from this plane of local consciousness and rejoins that plane of non-local consciousness which is the cloud of infinite intelligence that gives order to all existence.

You go back to where you were before you were born.

I call that ‘God’. I’m comfortable with that word, too. It’s simple and has been used a lot.

Are you comfortable with your soul?

You should be.

Your soul is the only thing you came into this plane of existence with and the only thing you’re going to take going out.