If our body is just a meat suit for our soul.
Where does our soul go when we die?
#soul #afterlife
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What if the soul is a complex emergent property of the meat suit? Then when the meat suit dies, the soul is simply no more.
You could be right.
But have you ever done deep meditation, taken some magic mushrooms, near death experience and watched your consciousness leave your body (an out of body experience).
I am 100% convinced that our soul/consciousness is eternal and moves onto new dimension when we die. A dimension outside of our perception of our 5 bodily senses.
Some may call it the heaven.
I could also be wrong. I follow the teachings of the bhagavad gita and the upanishads, which do have conceptions of souls. But my main goal at the moment is to find peace and strength of mind via their teachings.
The ultimate realization you can have in this system is that your individual soul is the same as the eternal soul contained within and that makes up all things, and therefore cannot die, ascend, descend, or change in any way. The one who attains such a realization therefore attains a state of no fear and no grief because they and all things are, have always been, and will always be.
So to answer your question, I could say that my ego dies with my body, which is the only thing sustaining the illusion that I have a soul separate from the universal one.
I have not got round to reading bhavagada Gita.
But I think I will now.
If you want, it's a nice read for sure. I recommend the Easwaran translation and commentary.
I have the epub:
https://mega.nz/file/vgRmxJJY#L4RHtS53xnPxB439akI8ppoYJ1SGVyBVr_k0E7eYA3M
I believe that our souls live on through the connections we made with others throughout our lifetimes.
Well in Christian eschatology/cosmology our souls separate from the body (death) and go either to Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven based on our either our acceptance/rejection of the universal Goodness and Ground of all Being (God). If the souls desire is not perfectly united to God yet not against God then Purgatory until perfectly united to the Divine Will.
All this is a result of Man’s original sin or rejection of the Divine Will… rejecting infinite Goodness = infinite consequences.
And these are realities for the soul AND body since God created us as body/soul composites. Though only possible after the final judgment at the end of humanity. Until then body and soul must be unnaturally separate (death). Our nature is to have our body and soul united for eternity.
Ding ding we have a winner 🥇
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More I read about peoples near death experience testimonies and those who have done DMT it seems this is the conclusion as well.