FROM A SITE VISITOR: If I'm not my body and and am aware of my consciousness even if I lost most of it's parts and I'm becoming conscious that I wasn't created so don't die but i return to the source or the field of consciousness from whence i came after my manifestation-am I conscious of this return? Thanks in advance. Bill
[Continued from yesterday]
Bill: I have always been giving myself a false sense of comfort in believing that at death my body will die but my soul will live on.
F.: Dogma often programs people to “tolerate suffering now in order to qualify for happiness later.” There is no “later,” so if happiness is to happen, it must happen now.
Furthermore, a “false sense” of comfort is likely an accurate characterization of your relative existence overall. Your history would probably show an absence of comfort in spite of any belief in the existence of an “eternal soul,” another concept dreamed up by men.
The fact that you accurately portray the sense of comfort as "false" is a sign of awakening to truth. Recent studies show that the majority of the people in the
As for the soul, show me the soul. Where it is located? Can an x-ray maybe reveal it? If it is to last forever, what is it made of? Is it flimsy...gauzy...solid...lighter than air so it can float? Does it have a mind? Can it talk? If there were a hell, the soul would have to be capable of feeling physical and mental pain, but wait…it's not physical since it cannot be found or located or photographed or evidenced now.
If there were an eternal soul, would it need to eat? If so, will food laws be followed by those souls? Which of the three food plans for the three different metabolic types will be served? Will Catholics eat fish on Fridays again?
Will Jews and Muslims avoid pork? Will the “really spiritual souls” be vegetarians and vegans? Will Hindus still not eat meat or fish or fowl and continue to be protein-deprived? Would eternal souls have to farm, or will food be provided magically/supernaturally? With no body whereby digestion can happen, what happens to the food served at the "banquets" that are promised by some religions?
If there is no body, how can the Muslim men enjoy their orgies of fornication with multiple women? And what of those Muslim women who are servicing those martyrs? Is the Islamic man's heaven an Islamic woman's hell? Talk about duality.
And is it true that a Mormon woman's soul must know her secret code name in order to be pulled through a veil by her husband-god and that, if she is not married at the time of her "death," she cannot enter into heaven at all? What happens to the souls in that category? All very confusing to anyone not programmed to unquestioningly accept such outlandish tales on blind faith.
Further, if it has no eternal body to sustain it, how would a soul supposedly function? Will “bill's soul” have male appendages like the god that bill was told about...the one “in whose image you were supposedly made”? Or will there be multiple gods as claimed by some of the religions that are not based in the words of Abraham?
Co-dependent relations here in the relative existence are maddening, so will your soul be in an eternal, co-dependent relationship with a god whom you can now supposedly make happy if you're good and sad if you're bad?
Will it be maddening for eternity, living with a god that can supposedly be made angry enough to damn you to pain forever if you make that “super being” super mad? How powerful is that god, really, if his mood can be controlled by unstable mortals?
(Finally, though, that might provide the answer to why an all-powerful god does not prevent all of the suffering and killing and torture of “his children” on earth: he can’t even control himself and his own emotional state, that being dependent on what humans do or do not do. Humans, instead, control him. Interesting, oui?)
Clear seeing, which can only happen in the absence of belief in all of the nonsense that has been taught, can lead to "The
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