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The Afterlife
Just Conversations on Near Death Experiences and the Afterlife
I hope the title is sufficient to inform the reader what I am about to discuss. I like this topic. I think I like this topic for more reasons than I am going to die and it comforts me. To be honest, it doesn’t always comfort me. In fact, I would say it sometimes provokes anxiety- as I tend to over think things and end up more fearful that I am doing something wrong than I would be if I just unconsciously plowed through life. In that, I could actually argue that Socrates got it wrong: the unexamined life can be sheer hell.
So before I reflect over a video, some literature, the article linked under the photo I have borrowed, I kind of want to consider some comments to the previous essays I have written on this subject. There is one comment that has come up on several times, in variations, and I will even say it is a reasonable objection to the book written by the PhD/MD I reviewed: ‘this is just someone pushing a book.”
I could just let that be right there. I have held that objection. I can’t scoff at it. It’s a solid objection. Still, my brain, won’t let it go. Did they read the book before they left that comment, or was the objection the thing they needed to to dismiss an artifact and get back to the unexamined life? If so, yay you! If I could walk away from more…
