
Question: Do you believe there is something beyond death excluding religion?
Answer: Maybe we could examine what “death” means first. We could say that “death” – or lack of life – is the termination of our perception of reality, when we “feel” as if the TV was switched off and we lose the live broadcast.
As long as our consciousness, perception of reality is dependent on our five physical senses, the passing of the biological body with its physical senses and the brain that digests the information means the end of receiving the live broadcast. In that case there is nothing beyond death.
But if we could develop, awaken an extra layer of consciousness, perception of reality that is not dependent on our biological body and its senses while we still live in our biological bodies, then the termination of our physical life does not mean “death” since we continue to perceive a ‘tangible”, realistic existence, we remain conscious using that new layer that we developed above the physical one.
That extra layer is very different from our inherent, instinctive physical consciousness, perception. It is not focused on ourselves, on our own existence, it is directed away from the self and from the physical being. It is based on an “altruistic agenda”, software, on unconditionally caring for, serving others, entering and unconditionally fulfilling the desires of others regardless of the state of the “self”.
With this new, extra layer of consciousness, perception we “use” others, anything and anybody outside of us as “vehicles” of perception and consciousness. This provides us with unprecedented, limitless possibilities. Since this new consciousness is not restricted by self-concern, self-justification, introverted worldview, it is not bound by the subjective limitations of time, space and physical motion. And since it has absolutely no concern for the “self”, for the state of the physical body, this new consciousnesses does not “notice” whether the physical body is alive or not.
While at first this might sound “fantastical”, science fiction, we have the actual, purposeful, practical, scientific method and the necessary laboratory conditions to try and acquire such a state. Then when the new consciousness, perception first starts flickering, awakening we will realize that what we considered “life” before was actually “death” compared to the quantitative and qualitative scope of our new existence.