Let me ask you a question… do you remember what your life 150 years ago? Yes, precisely… you were not around 150 year ago. You have no recollection of it because you did not exist… yet.
Similarly, 150 years from now, you will not be around to experience life. Once you die, your conscience ceases to exist. There is absolutely no evidence that your conscience lives on after you die
… no matter what new age gurus, or various books have to say about it.
Sure, there are people that have experienced -out of body-experiences, and seen a ͞bright light͟ when they felt they were almost dead.
But all such experiences can be explained with they way our brains work, and the chemistry of our brains when it is under extreme stress or deprived or neutrients, and the like. I know that I am being a ͞
kill joy͟ to the millions of people that want to believe that somehow
they will continue to live on after they die in this world. But…
I’m afraid the cold hard truth is… that there is absolutely no scientific evidence of life after death. It is highly improbable.
But this is not bad news at all….the good news is….you are alive NOW! You have a chance to live the kind of life you want to live.
It is a gift that you are a conscious being living on to day’s earth, at perhaps the greatest time for human beings. There is relative peace in the world, and a greater proportion of the people of the world is prosperous today than ever in our history.
And you have a chance to make the best of it. You should…. because it is likely your ONLY chance.
I enjoy your videos, but that is a gross over-simplification of what people who have died and returned experience, it has never been explained by any scientific process, and it’s a bit disingenuous to claim to solve the greatest mystery of existence in under 1000 words.
Besides, there’s more to it than life after death.
There’s the question of what is life?
What is consciousness?
Is it life after death if part of our consciousness continues and another part doesn’t? Is it still us?
How exactly do you explain near-death experiences, particularly in cases that have baffled neuroscientists?
And plenty more………
So, this is a disappointing blog post
You are naively trying to answer a metaphysical truth through physics, remaining in the domain of rational and empirical understanding. The same rational, empirical, scientific driven information says that 99.99percent of universe is outside the domain of scientific understanding ( dark energies, dark matter, black hole etc….). How could you be so sure with even less than 0.1 % of possible knowledge that will ever be available to science ( i.e the visible universe) about the whole universe of which which you have no clue about the 99.99 % ( the metaphysical domain).
You have certainly explained many things well, Arvin.
My comment is directed at a paragraph in your other article, “What happens to your energy after you die:”
But energy is absolutely conserved upon death by conversion to other forms of energy. Unfortunately, conversion to spiritual or conscious energy doesn’t appear to be one of them. There is no evidence that your consciousness is conserved in any way. The electrical energy of your brain simply ceases to be, and will change form to a higher entropy, or more disordered form of energy, namely heat.
Our consciousness is a form of energy. It is not merely electrical energy which is what you seem to imply in that paragraph. Sure, when the electrical impulses that sustain our consciousness end, our consciousness will fade. But since consciousness is a form of energy, does it simply entrophy into heat? The jury is still out on that, don’t you think. Science has not yet investigated consciousness thoroughly enough that we can make definitive statements about it.
In the 1960s, a researcher pursued this matter in a rigorously academic manner. He was a psychiatrist named Ian Stevenson. Check it out at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson. I don’t necessarily believe in reincarnation but I do believe further research is needed on this topic.
Thank you for decisively state the obvious. There will be a lot of “opinions” and anecdotal BS for sure — don’t get discouraged and move one. There will always be indoctrinated losers and their believes…
At 1:32 you said “life is a gift”.. gift from who?
You see you have inadvertently indicated something you actually know about but which is missing in your thinking. It is the same reason you also correct yourself at 1:14 “absolutely no ‘evidence’ of” then “lets just say its highly improbable” since you know science never claims absolute truth. If you really think about it you know that pure Energy cannot create Matter (without antimatter), Order (increase in average improbability) or Information (communication with meaning and purpose) as we observe these in the universe and in life. So we have the following components of reality:
[SPACE TIME CONSCIOUSNESS (awareness of self and environment)
[MASS ENERGY INFORMATION (communication)
[PHYSICAL MORAL SPIRITUAL (Wow /eureka / overwhelming emotion moments)
All these as defined are observed and well known so we come to MIND.. which even Aristotle figured out was more than the physical brain. Again observe the components of Mind:
[CONSCIOUSNESS CREATIVITY COMMUNICATION]
All we need to do is observe that PURPOSE and MEANING can only originate from a MIND then we can conclude:
Since all life is founded upon INFORMATION precisely as defined above with both MEANING and PURPOSE then it is the product or a MIND. We also observe a staggering amount of MATTER and ORDER in the universe which we know cannot come from energy alone (by the 2nd law). Some theory today agrees the origin of this is also INFORMATION! Hence we conclude such a mind cannot originate inside the universe itself in order to create it! So we have an infinite mind outside the universe who must be also conscious, creative and communicates.
Since we are aware of GOOD and EVIL (observed moral attribute) which is only consistently defined in the bible and since the bible uniquely gives the first human record of both the second law of thermodynamics and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle in context and the only account of the origin of life and the universe consistent with the 2nd law we can reasonably conclude it is a communication from that mind and so we not only have real evidence of that mind but also his identity ie The God of the Bible. Therefore we do know this mortal life is destined for a future outside of time and space under a great plan of God which depends upon how we handle the truth we are given and know. (2 Thess 2:11)
Arvin, your grasp of Science is equally as incredible as your lack of faith.
I’m here to put the record straight on both fronts.
Keep an eye on the news and the skies.
Lots of love.
Newton laws of motion are not used to solve multiplication (ew bad example). Everything has a context, meaning and place. One linear law cannot be used to answer those things are are not in context. We don’t know what we don’t know. Follow the works of Dr. Trupti Jayin and Dr. Brian Weiss, which clearly focuses on a soul’s karmic journey across lifetimes through past life regression. Better get a PLR session and experience the journey first hand. Why to debate when the factual answer so easily available.
Re. “Life is a gift”… He said a “gift” as a phenomenon, a special circumstance or twist of things, or their nature i.e. a weave of underlying forces of nature like physics, chemistry and molecular forces leading to a creation of more and more complex forms, resulting in what we call life on our level of perception. Life is a movement, a constant transformation and a creation of new forms or arrangements, same applies to seemingly lifeless atoms, building blocks of life, there is movement in there, ability to transform and create new bonds. The world was never static, it is in a constant process of transformation, attraction and repulsion. There is life, or movement, in everything. Not a gift from God, or anyone, but rather an inherent ability to rearrange itself based squarely on the properties of the matter itself and governing forces.
I’m surprised that a scientist would make such a claim. It is very clear that you have not considered one of the most important scientific parts of the issue. When any scientist is doing a study in any field where humans are involved, they take GREAT steps to ensure blind testing, with placebos, etc, because they know that humans will subconsciously or consciously effect the results of the study. So any study into life after death or the existence of God must eliminate the possibility that God himself is having an impact on the study. If God exists, then by definition he is vastly superior to humans and by definition he would have direct knowledge of any testing that we are doing. So, until you can come up with a test that is blind to God himself, any opinion on this matter is very unscientific.
Dear Sir
There is no evidence of conciousness surviving after dead, period, scientifically that is all you can say, you can not say it will not survive, that is a different proof and you have no way to discart it
Gift
There is the rub. Religious people (I am an atheist) believe that life is a gift – an absurd belief: for most people it is a curse . . . Most people who lived in the past and for most people today.
But I will go with it. That it is a gift
1) all religious beliefs are immortality ideologies
2) the trinity is one of countless immortality ideologies
Let me explain
a) it does away with biological generation, does away with sexual congress/coitus. That is why the father and son are conflated
b) without biological generation, therefore and thereby, there is no degeneration
c) it is a ghost story — indeed a high order ghost story, a holy ghost; indeed the ghost is a mechanism for conflation of the generations
also
you bump into someone on the street, let us say, it is your fault. What do you say? Presuming you are normal.
you say, I’m sorry
Sorry for what?
Well you are sorry for this three dimensional body that you believe was a gift, it has hurt someone else
So you ask for forgiveness – atonement.
And your afraid you have to pay someone for this gift . . .
Listen, (to believers) I can only show you the way, I can lead you, but you must think the rest out yourself . It is simplei
Gift
There is the rub. Religious people (I am an atheist) believe that life is a gift – an absurd belief: for most people it is a curse . . . Most people who lived in the past and for most people today.
But I will go with it. That it is a gift
1) all religious beliefs are immortality ideologies
2) the trinity is one of countless immortality ideologies
Let me explain
a) it does away with biological generation, does away with sexual congress/coitus. That is why the father and son are conflated
b) without biological generation, therefore and thereby, there is no degeneration
c) it is a ghost story — indeed a high order ghost story, a holy ghost; indeed the ghost is a mechanism for conflation of the generations
also
you bump into someone on the street, let us say, it is your fault. What do you say? Presuming you are normal.
you say, I’m sorry
Sorry for what?
Well you are sorry for this three dimensional body that you believe was a gift, it has hurt someone else
So you ask for forgiveness – atonement.
And your afraid you have to pay someone for this gift . . .
Listen, (to believers) I can only show you the way, I can lead you, but you must think the rest out yourself . It is simple
I wonder why would you even consider a thing for which there is no evidence. For which there is no way to test. Why waste your time commenting on such things. Like god, the multiverse, before the big bang, the edge of the universe, is mathematics created or discovered. On and on. All of them are unknowable. Untestable. Without evidence. Yet you and other big brain folks endlessly conjecture and blab about them. But the only one that is absurd to you is god. I find it interesting. Absurd because you can’t measure it. Maybe you don’t have the right yardstick.
I don’t agree that we don’t know. We do have evidence. Many people just don’t want to believe it, or take it at face value for what it is telling you. The evidence indicates that your life ends after death, and that your consciousness ceases to be after your brain is dead. There is no afterlife for your body, your brain, or your consciousness. If you want to believe that there is, you have every right to believe that. But if you want to know what the evidence shows, it shows that there is nothing beyond.
You say “We do have evidence” So state it. You say “evidence shows there is nothing” What is the evidence? Evidence only shows we rot. Everyone agrees with that! But you have nothing beyond that. But if you want to believe there is nothing beyond the physical then, to use your words, you have every right to believe that. But its better not to assume anything about what I believe. I try not to push my beliefs on anybody else. Especially when I have no physical evidence for them.
Many experiences and books on spirituality will disagree. Certain parts of our consciousness is permanent.
Experiences:
– People who remember past lives (British woman Dorothy Eady spoke Egyptian as a child without being taught, Billy Campbell was previously Princess Diana, Russian kid previously from Mars, etc.)
– astral travel and out of body experiences (see Robert Monroe’s books, various testimonies)
– Past life regression triggered via meditation, hypnosis, etc.
– Near death experiences (Wayne Herschel’s experiences inspired movie Prometheus, etc.)
Books and articles
– Rudolf Steiner
– Cassiopaea
– Mouravieff
– Gurdjieff
– Blavatsky
– Law of One
– Robert Monroe
– Revelations from an elite family insider
I am sorry but it is scientifically illogical for you to conclude there is no consciousness after death based on there “not being any scientific evidence of it” for the simple even OBVIOUS reason that you have to be dead to find out. Science has only just now even begun to investigate the matter. Only recently it was common to state “There is no scientific evidence life exists elsewhere in the universe” Who would believe such a statement now? By the way The Buddha says consciousness continues. He was a smart cookie. He is remembered even now even though he never posted a YouTube video. May you live long and prosper even to infinity and beyond – Cheerios