Many people believe they die. They do not agree on what this means or what will happen after that. Some individuals are convinced they have already died and returned to live again. Others feel they are always dreaming and will awaken at the point of death. Still others sense they communicate with the spirits of people supposedly dead. Many refuse to discuss it.
What happens in the here and hereafter sparks curiosity, fear and controversy. Humans create myths as ways to distract them from what they believe is the inevitable. Now, what if false collective beliefs are used to justify a social institution? What if discussions on death actually invite you to learn to think for yourself? Choose to shatter these myths about dying;
1) You should avoid the subject. Many people do not speak about death as it evokes discomfort in them or, they assume it would bother others. People who choose not to explore a subject at all do not permit themselves to question what they are told to be true. In fact, diverse perspectives exist and many belief systems to support them. How open-minded you are is said to affect your perception and experience.
2) Your fear will grow with age. Your state of mind is not age-related. Imagination affects your health and well-being. It can contribute to joy and anxiety at any age, and shapes how you deal with losing control and facing uncertainty. You are given myriad conditions to learn to adapt to transitions. Life experience gradually prepares you to be less shocked with change as it occurs, including what is expected as death.
3) You will take all you acquire. If you choose to agree, then possession and ownership become vital to you in the physical world. Egyptian civilisations believed they would take physical possessions and even slaves and animals along to help them on the Other Side. Yet, curiously, objects are found still lying in their tombs. Another view is all you take with you is your attitude and intangible wisdom. The rest is left behind.
4) Your awareness will not help you. How you think determines what you feel and experience wherever you are. As you decide to explore what does and does not define you, beneath the conditioning and external appearances, you will begin to move beyond a cycle of suffering. You will gain insight into permanence and impermanence.
5) You must die yourself to understand. If you believe you are an energy being that died and returned to learn more lessons, then you underestimate how much insight you already have. As you evolve to attune to energy, you enter new levels of awareness to help shatter your human-created myths. Reality is that you experience life to expand your knowledge of emotion, to become more discerning, to learn when attachment and detachment are appropriate. By sensing the true nature of things, including yourself, doubt fades and trust emerges.