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THE DEATH STEWPOT
the long version
the one minute version

Throughout the ages different cultures were bound together by their creation stories and after death beliefs, they gave the culture an identity and a sense of purpose.

Our modern culture is developing a unique identity, quite unlike any previous culture or their beliefs - since Darwin, Einstein and all the natural scientists we have extensively changed our ideas on where we come from ... however our culture has avoided the subject of death ... which is a shame because maybe now there are easily availiable new ideas which would comfort rather than scare us.

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let's first consider that if you do not believe in any life after death, you may think you are a hard headed realist; but actually you disagree with one of our cultures most important scientific facts : that energy can transform, but nothing can vanish.

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There are only very few models of what can happen after death ... the principle ideas are

(1) In Jewish, Christian, Muslim and various ancestor beliefs, the spirit is usually created at birth, and after death this individual spirit or soul lives on forever, usually in heaven, sometimes after a period in hell.

(2) Zarathusa and Plato believed that there is an eternal individual spirit which incarnates once.

(3) Then there's the Hindu model and various nature religions, where an individual spirit is reincarnated into a series of insects animals, people, and at the end of the list are usually Gods.

(4) The Buddhist model (not Tibetan Buddhism – which follows the Hindu/nature religion model). Buddha said nothing is reincarnated. This is often understood with the analogy of one billiard ball hitting another, where the energy from the first ball passes onto the second – usually sending it in a different direction – but no actual substance is transfered.

and then (5) there is the stewpot model

So the stewpot cooks .. and each of us is a BLUB (a beautiful individual blub - and no other blub will ever be exactly like it) - it lasts a split second - then divides into steam and smells and also i suppose what we could call the skin of the bubble splashing out, ... evaporating and condensating ... and then, ... over the course of the next 30 minutes, ... what was previously just one BLUB will become part of hundreds of new BLUBS ...!

On the material level it is obvious: it happens with everything from stewpots to trees and clouds, but also, now, there is a good argument for considering this, as a possibility for what happens after our death with our consciousness, our emotions and character qualities etc.

That after death my qualities, my desires, my frustrations, my hopes, my hates, etc etc will separate out, and then rejoin with qualities from others.

In one of our next lives, parts of you and me, could be combined together as part of a new process, in a new person - in the same way a tree gathers the substances it needs to build itself ... my desires and your hopes could be drawn together ...

I feel now, somehow satisfied by this idea, it makes sense to me, ... i feel my death as a point where i will somehow spread my seeds ...

robin

PS. i am not saying that this idea is the absolute truth - i am far more interested in what other new ideas there could be.

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