herbavore
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I would just like to contribute something that my son said in one of our many conversations about what may or may not happen after death. He said this at 19. He died about a month later.
"Before you are matter you are energy.This time spent being matter is only a blip. When matter dies, it gives off energy so it only ceases to exist as matter and continues to exist as energy." I had this printed up at his memorial along with something he had said that was remarkably similar at three years of age. I am pretty sure we know more than we allow ourselves to know.
I think the mystery of all this can be frightening or comforting depending on your outlook. It has always been a comfort to me to know that I am part of a bigger picture that I do not understand. Each of us is a mind, a body, a spirit. We know exactly what happens to the body from conception through decomposition. We have to learn to live with the uncertainty of what happens to that which is not physical. Perhaps it has been the excruciating experience of losing my son that has removed the very last vestige of fear I have of dying myself. Paradoxically this has led me to an even greater appreciation of my own short time here.
I hope that you can find comfort within your mind. Make your time here a time of connection. connect with others, with animals, with the wild places still left. connect with passion and sensuality. The more you connect with everything that is very temporary, the more you feel the timelessness of existence IMO.
"Before you are matter you are energy.This time spent being matter is only a blip. When matter dies, it gives off energy so it only ceases to exist as matter and continues to exist as energy." I had this printed up at his memorial along with something he had said that was remarkably similar at three years of age. I am pretty sure we know more than we allow ourselves to know.
I think the mystery of all this can be frightening or comforting depending on your outlook. It has always been a comfort to me to know that I am part of a bigger picture that I do not understand. Each of us is a mind, a body, a spirit. We know exactly what happens to the body from conception through decomposition. We have to learn to live with the uncertainty of what happens to that which is not physical. Perhaps it has been the excruciating experience of losing my son that has removed the very last vestige of fear I have of dying myself. Paradoxically this has led me to an even greater appreciation of my own short time here.
I hope that you can find comfort within your mind. Make your time here a time of connection. connect with others, with animals, with the wild places still left. connect with passion and sensuality. The more you connect with everything that is very temporary, the more you feel the timelessness of existence IMO.
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