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Recieved: 2001/09/01 14:05
Subject: [K-list] The Great Uncertainty
From: Christopher Wynter
On 2001/09/01 14:05, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
How do we know what happens after death?
Has anyone actually come back from the grave
and told us with any authority what happened?
Yet, the Spiritual and Religious texts are full of myths and
paradigms as to what happens.
The teachers and Gurus lead us by the nose throughout our lives
because of the greatest uncertainty of all -
what happens during the dying process -
and at the death - from which we seek Salvation.
It is the fear of death which is ultimately behind the Spiritual and
Religious search for some Self-sense of Immortality - Some seek Salvation in a utopic Heaven or Shamballah to the point of
selling our Souls in penance to avoid the depths of Hades - or even
worse, Purgatory .. suspension in Uncertainty.
Almost everyone has their own particular version of the "Great Myth"
which they will rigorously defend rather than face their own inner
"Great Uncertainty."
(and, in the course of my life, I've heard most of them)Our survival instinct rooted in our fear of Death has become the
greatest underlying motivator for all thought and action - hope, need
and desire.
For some, it is this uncertainty which is behind all inaction -
the fear of "What's the point" ..
Yet, even the Buddha, when closely questioned as to what happens
after death, refused to be drawn into giving an answer.
Western Spirituality bases its beliefs on passages from the bible
concerning the experiences of the one we call Jesus - and even holds
this experience up as a reward which we can earn through striving in
servitude throughout our earthly lives.
Some even write from personal Near Death Experiences
and think they know what it is like after Death ..
and even though their experience is very real to them, it is
translated through the language of their own preconceptions - their
ideas of what it should be like, based on their own (conscious or
unconscious) religious beliefs.
The NDE, for the most part, is NOT an experience of dying, but the
experience of the shock of being separated from the body by accident.
It is an experience of "Death" in the physical sense as the cessation
of Life - but it is not the experience of a choice of overcoming the
great uncertainty and allowing the experience of an ending of the
separation between life and death.
Until this conscious choice can be made, the cycle of death-rebirth
still pervades in the individual consciousness.
The fear of death - the final "Great Uncertainty" is that which
separates the individual from the collective consciousness and keeps
our mind divided into conscious and unconscious. Even the use of the
word "Death" as in "dying to the past" is something which awakens a
great fear in the "Spiritual Disciple" and initiate.
So much so that some even use terms such as "Awakened" -
or "Awakening" - "Enlightenment" or "Self Realisation"
to avoid facing the "Great Uncertainty".
A new born child should have reasonable strong recollections of what
happens in the period between death and birth. But, then, as we grow
up, we are put under the pressures of religion and society by parents
and peers are themselves afraid of the mirror of their own mortality.
The original impressions become faded in the unconscious - except for
sudden glimpses which may come in our dreams - or in meditation - and
then our conditioned reality of the tangible framework of "living in
this world" makes us so suspicious of the experience that we treat it
as some sort of bad joke - or dismiss it altogether -
so recreating another cycle of the Great Uncertainty
and an even greater obstacle to personal liberation
as we deepen the divide between body and consciousness.
-- Christopher Wynter,
lifestreamsATnospambigpond.com
http://www.anunda.com
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