In response to Lockmar:
I'm just wondering...In regards to spirituality, isn't an out-of-body experience an event where "the essence of who you really are" leaves the body for a short time?
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Ask yourself “who” is experiencing the out of body experience; is it not the mind of that body that feels being outside that body? “Feeling” being outside your body and “being” outside your body is not the same thing.
I can dream to be able to fly and fight dragons in the air, does that make it true?
Please recall the relation between alcoholic spirits and the spirit, which is being a product of mental disorder caused by alcoholic effects on the mind.
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Does that prove we don't need a body or are such experiences questionable at best?
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Indeed you do need a body to be “out of” and without that body being your reference then out of what is that experience being experienced? If it was not the experience of what resides inside the body then why take it as a reference at all? To what rules are we attributing the alleged consistency of a soul being outside a body? What is it that keeps such an imaginary soul together? It is the body out of which we believe to be.
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According to physics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. In addition, IIRC, if you decide to split an atom in half and keep doing it, you would find that there is no end to the process. You could keep doing it forever. There is no point in which an atom simply disappears as you keep cutting it in half. It is simply reshaped or maybe becomes smaller and smaller. Thus, the concept of something being no more is kind of questionable if you look at it from this perspective. Perhaps there is a part of us that doesn't die on a deeper level?
Thanks.
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Ah, I see, however if we track the atoms of he who dies we shall realise that they may begin to belong to bacteria, ants, plants and a completely new set of life forms that could in turn die. Which soul at which time can we attribute to those atoms? Only the soul of the living form that functions through being materialised by those atoms may be interrelated. Indeed, neither energy nor matter can be created from nothingness but what is nothingness? In fact, primedium is dynamic by default. One human contains X number of atoms dies and through thousands of years that set is redistributed such that a hundred people and a thousand insect and a million tree may share those atoms. The energy that existed in the original human just dissipates exactly in the same fashion of putting one’s hand on a cold wall. No soul travels from your hand to a wall and turns it alive.
Our consciousness is a function of form referenced by a solid in a frame of time. The disintegration of the form infers the disintegration of the function.
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