Its kind of hard to explain. But i think even tho our body dies, our mind continues to live forever.Of course, we wont remeber our previous lives, but our genderless MINDS will live, doesn't matter in what kind of form... I .....can you even imagine it....the actual word FOREVER
well it isn't the mind exactly. mind is the interface between our awairness and the physical life forms we walk arround in. mind is still software, opperating system level software, but software none the less, that runs and thus depends upon the physical brain. awairness however, is a somewhat more mysterious and possibly quite sepperate thing, that as you say, might well continue beyond this life and on into further ones. we don't KNOW this, though most beleifs claim to, but it IS a real possibility. awairness in the abscense of mind and memory is also difficult to immagine, but may well carry, if not memories, which is of questionable probability if it is as living brain dependent as is now widely believed, but quite possibly intrinsic preferences, either within the very 'fabric' of our awairnessess from the instant of their nontangable origen, long before the conception of the bodies we currently 'wear', or, aggain possibly, having been acumulated over the living of many lifetimes. there is no guarantee of contiguousness of awairness either, but an ingriguiging possibility is serial mortality. that is, that upon brain death we 'wink out', only to again awaiken in a featus about to be born, somewhere, some life form, on some physicly tangable world, very possibly not this one. i think you've (lil mermaid) got exactly the right idea there. i just had to minor quibble over the terminology. there is also the 'bardo' possibility; i.e. a kind of waiting room/nontangable universe, between physical tangable lives. not the absolute and eternal heavin or hell, which are also possible, just only one possibility among many, and anything being eternal, other, perhaps then awairness, and that not contiguously, seems a bit counter to intuitive and inductive appearant probability. i CAN well immagine, this kind of serial awairness of existence into some sort of perpetuity or near perpetuity, though not, forever tied to any one tangable, physical planet. and STRONGLY suspect, many, if not most of us, are ourselves, far more ancient awairnessess, then most of us have ever considered the possibility of being. even our tangable universe is big, strainge, and mysteriously diverse. =^^= .../\...
Look up anesthesia and consciousness on the web. There are some interesting problems with consciousness that the are very hard for the scientists to explain away. To begin with, consciuosness or mind might be a quantum event...anyway, they are not even sure how anesthesia works. all of this kind of relates to this thread.
even conscousness isn't neccessarily related to awairness. the i am as opposed to the i am here or i am such and so. or perhaps even the am without the i, the way the buddhists have it. =^^= .../\...
The mind itself is hard to undertand..but possible... everythign is possible... maybe we continue to live... go to hell/heaven.. or jsut die.. u never know....
i once thought of a way this was possible on a mushroom trip but i have long forgot. it all fit in a made sense. if the brain's possible of producing different vast states of conciousness then who knows what it's full potentials are.
