In Joshua Warren‘s 2003 book How to Hunt Ghosts. He has a chapter called Death.
This is the first of a few different perspectives we’re going to look at on what is death? These are perspectives by people who work in the ghost industry.
The human body is more than what meets the eye. Just as we have a unique physical body,
we have a unique energy body. As you’ve seen, there’s no doubt that this energy body exists. In this modern age of technology, we’ve documented its presence, but people have discussed this field for thousands of years in reference to psychic abilities. Is it indeed possible that our energy fields hold the key to understanding ESP?
Regardless of how these energies behave in life, they may have a great influence on us after death.
If your body consists of a physical layer, like ice, and a ghostly layer, like steam, is it possible that one layer could die, while the other still carries on? The law of conservation of energy states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, simply conserved. Does this mean the energy disperses back into nature and our consciousness ends? Or when our physical bodies die, might this energy structure continue to exist? As the old saying goes, what? We may literally give up the ghost, discarding our shell of flesh. If a physically destroyed limb leaves some aspect behind, why shouldn’t an entire body? If our flesh is indeed only one layer of multilayered beings, then we may shed it and still exist in some alternate form?
Some people do not believe in the existence of the mind.
Those people generally think living creatures are no more than organic computers. They propose that we are highly complex biological machines, but solely mechanical creatures nonetheless. If such were the case, we would merely shut down at death. In this way, the human experience is limited to the time between birth and death. On a cosmic scale, individual life would therefore be, worthless, having no eternal meaning. Is a belief in the afterlife merely a hopeful way of giving our lives non-existent meaning? The I’ll get it. Oh. Huh. I don’t know. great philosopher Descartes pondered this complex issue more than 300 years ago. He wanted to know the ultimate truth in life. Therefore, he conducted a mental experiment, Descartes Doubted everything about the world he could possibly doubt, believing that what remained must be truth. He found there was only one thing he could not deny, that he was doubting, that he was thinking. He then uttered the immortal statement. “I think therefore I am”.
Let me clarify the significance. Our five physical senses trick us every day.
Objects far away appear to shrink, while those coming closer appear to grow. The top of a nearby trash can baby a circle, but when we place it at an angle 10 feet away, it becomes an Oval. Humans jumped to ridiculous conclusions based upon inaccurate perceptions. Professional magicians or illusionists, exploit this weakness. The weakness can be further demonstrated when we acknowledge that not everyone sees the world the same way. Again, color blindness is a prime example. Or, Remember the chocolate example, I like the taste of chocolate. You may like the taste of chocolate as well, but how do you know we taste the same thing? It’s a taste we both enjoy, and one we can distinguish from other tastes. But you don’t know how we experience the same taste, and in this life you never will.
There is also surprisingly simple scientific evidence for the existence of the mind. In his book Windows on the Mind, Erich Hearth illustrates this
“If I want to sit down and write a letter, this want must cause the brain to send signals to the appropriate muscles. To a physicist, this is a disconcerting thought because it would mean that a non physical entity, the mind, is able to exert a physical influence over the body”.
How can something that does not exist cause a physical reaction, like moving your body at will? How could there be a physical effect without a physical cause? This goes back to the mind body dilemma. There seems to be only one explanation for how this thing called the mind could manipulate a chunk of flesh. Whatever it is, it’s there
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