Life after death is an oxymoron

The title sums it up. If death is under consideration for an individual self, then 'life after' is redundant. Other people will live on, sure. But after one dies, there is no life after death. There is only death. The experience is non-living. Sometimes people die then come back to life, occasionally. And during these occurrences, sometimes they can recall the experience from conscious memory. There is no way to literally prove their subjective experience really happened, however, death can be measured/quantified and proven.

While people are limited with our senses, we make up for it with expansive imagination. Through the imagination we can experience things our senses wouldn't really allow. We can defy gravity, entropy, change, stasis, objective logic in general. Immortality is a conceptual antibody the imagination produced because of death. When we let our imagination solve the challenge of thriving, our lives undergo experience which is called dream.

A dream come true - when the imagination produces a reality for subsequent senses. We have the ability to take what's in our imagination, and put it into the physical/objective world. My favorite example is the airplane, and how far we've come with trying out flight (check out jetman dubai if you want to see some truly awesome flying). But it can be something less physical as well, such as a persons behavior. The airplane is lovely, but it wouldn't have happened were it not for the specific behavior used to produce the idea and reality of it. The creation process of the airplane began within the imagination of its creators.

When I hear religious people talk about god as the creator, I feel like they are just talking about themselves in third person. God is an idea in the imagination, and doesn't necessarily exist in objectivity beyond that. But the nice thing about the imagination, it can figure out *how* to objectify ideas, *to* be measured. If god cannot be measured, then god can be redefined. When the definition is on the table for reconstruction, anything is possible; it's on!

Creation of objective properties, substance, and behavior are all the imagination needs to get the ball rolling. After that it's a matter of moving things around into the proper place. I think of imagination as what furthers convenient adjustment for life, and what cements the possibility to thrive into existence. Perhaps the imagination then is not limited to intelligent "life", in the sense of organisms. Imagination itself could be a objective concept; force of nature. Life and creation go hand in hand it seems, but BOTH are merely subjected to perspective.

Life as we KNOW IT may not be life *completely*. Think about fire and flames for a moment. Fire has many of the same properties as anything living (that's why we say fire dies). Fire is not an organism, but it is not inanimate, yet has a lifespan. Such is the principle for this theory: Life and the Imagination are 2 things which can exist in objective reality, not organically associated with perspective or perception, and are in fact forces of nature orchestrated by the universe at large - through micro and macro elements of behavior. Quantum and galactic mechanics go largely over and under our heads, which means we are lucky enough to be somewhere in the middle. We have plenty of room to stretch and breathe our personal imagination, so why not try it!

A decent living

If it's naive to think we can all get along, then it is equally naive to think we can not. It takes the same amount of effort either way. What we feel and think about one another is all happening within ourselves. Well that's obvious! So then the path to responsibility is illuminated: we act on what is within ourselves, to see it externalized. We share the moment and history with each other by choice. You may not have chosen to cross paths with a stranger, but you chose to be where you are when it happened.

Self awareness entails acceptance of such a responsibility. Our actions and reactions are made by the individual; us and us alone. Once we integrate ourselves into the set, we can change the setting. By changing the setting, we alter the set. With self awareness we can discover anything that's possible to do. Once the discovery of what we *can* do is made, our path splits into possibilities. 

Whichever paths we take is our personal choice.

Behavior of behavior

If we don't control our behavior, our behavior will control us. When self restraint is not at all a factor, it's easy to let our actions get away from us. We don't think about repercussions or consequences; we usually just think in terms of satisfaction. It's a bad habit to get into, and can become quite a problem as history continues to build. Ones behavior forms itself into patterns if left uncontrolled. Sometimes these patterns are more positive and sometimes they are more negative. 

Such is the case for a individuals behavior, however it reflects from a more internetted grand scale across societies. Each society is held together by the participating individuals, and therefore is a collective entity of their behavior. While viewing the overall status of a society, the particular contributing behavioral elements of the individual is often overlooked. I believe it is through introspection, and self reflection that we can begin to change what is greater than the individual.

Through understanding ourselves more intimately, we develop a higher sense for our objective place in nature (the world, or universe if you prefer). This in turn gives us a greater capacity for an even higher understanding. We learn about ourselves, to learn more about the world, which gives us more to learn about ourselves *with*. This is a positive feedback loop, and the result of having self control! We are responsible for our own behavior whether we like to admit it or not. By accepting responsibility, we can develop more naturally and gracefully.

Naturally

Our senses lead us through potential in the same way the wind blows a leaf around through the air. We discover things to be aware of, and at the same time we miss out on other things. We are specific and particular in what we experience. While we may be in one place experiencing something, we lose the oppertunity to be elsewhere in that moment. We choose our paths of action and potential like a tree chooses the direction it's branches will grow. 


We start the process from the roots of an experience. Many factors curve the development of potential, and change the course of *how* it develops. Like a tree stretching it's limbs towards the sun, our decisions procure the direction of our experience. To what ends our potential comes to is like the leaves of a tree. The fruit then would be what we can extract and share from the experience.

Accepting oneself in bad potential is like planting a seed in bad soil. A tree doesn't need much care to see natural growth, and so we can get by with just a decent minimum too. However it's all the more impressive to see a tree grow healthy and strong when it is malnourished and has indecent foundations. If the roots are deep enough then the growth of the tree may yet still be salvaged.

We can learn a lot from literally anything if we have the mind to :)

Upgrade common sense to common understanding

Senses and emotions will completely rule our lives if we allow it to happen. Self awareness and self restraint are important for us to stay in control of our actions, rather than letting lower thinking take control. Lower thinking is how we find ourselves in undesirable situation. This is true for personal circumstances as well as grand scale situations, like that of a country. We "make due" with "the lesser of two evils", when the smart thing to do would be to find a completely different/better solution all together.

Convenience is a double edged sword; it leads to complacency, but greater contrasts the problems of a situation. When desire is fulfilled quickly it creates a subconscious expectation. When the expectation goes unmet, the reason 'why' quickly falls into understanding.

I see this pattern in politics and law enforcement a lot (too much). It seems to me that people have a problem with the self. We like to have other people solve our problems when they are over our head to deal with. But the fact that they are over our head is statement. By admitting awareness of something, we have just revealed our capacity to begin to understand it.

This means accepting responsibility for being able to understand something, or denying it - which is irresponsible. In this way politics and law enforcement are inherently flawed. We put our stock in others, knowing for our stock to get to those 'others' it has to go through a corrupt system. But we pretend and play along enough until it becomes inconvenient for ourselves. It's a bad joke that stopped being funny after the US founding fathers left their royally infested country to start the united states.

And even that was irresponsible. The united states is built on foundations of genocide. People complain about who is running for president, but what they're really complaining about is their own position of weakness. And it's 100% by choice. We don't get to choose our circumstances 100%, but we are completely and totally in control of how we act and react. I'm saying too many people choose to lower their heads and complain, instead of rise to the challenge of decency and actually do something themselves. Something which would give them nothing to complain about.

I'm not suggesting "change the world", I'm suggesting  change the self!

Judge Truth

Spiritual toxicity is a byproduct of when a hostile mind contradicts a gentle heart. To avoid toxicity and relish in positive spiritual development, one must align their heart and mind. The tuning must be natural and not forced: the tune must come through accepting balance. Total honesty must cascade through oneself so spiritual toxicity may wash away. Think of lying as building a damn to prevent the flow of a river. Ones spiritual development flows like a river, and is altered with lies and dishonesty.

Changing the direction of the flow is not necessarily a bad thing. Curvature of rivers add something special to a more grand scale perspective, creating a winding shimmering image of water.

Prohibiting the flow is what makes the river disappear all together down the way. This pattern of behavior is kindred to ones spiritual development. Synchronicity can be applied to anything if one has the capacity for it. Capacity is just another aspect of ourselves which we consciously dictate.

Self Discipline

Self control is beneficial in situations where one might think or feel or act (or a combination) as though the sun were always a lie, just because it got completely cloudy. Especially if such behavior is the chosen path of another person one is in contact with. Even more especially so if you're like me, sensitive and influenceable. In the act of allowing negativity to chaperone ones perspective, one becomes more likely to reflect it in their behavior. By making the decision to persue negativity, one creates a cause for cause and effect. The decision is the cause, where as the resulting behavior is the effect. 


This is important to be aware of to save oneself some negativity when pain becomes a factor due to "unforseen circumstances". Recognizing negative patterns in someone is the awareness one needs to have, to protect oneself from their bad behavior. It's all fun and games until misunderstanding reaches capacity, and violence take the situation by surprise/dismay.


All one can fairly expect is what one can do themself. Certain behavior may not always give expected results, and that's something important to keep in mind. Sparing ones self from other's drama will allow more room and focus towards decency. Acting decently isn't what decency is all about however. The action one takes is merely a part of something bigger than the self. For the sake of simplicity I break it down into phases of awareness and understanding.


-Dance-


To be comfortable is to experience objective decency. Such an idea may seem paradoxical, as the circumstances are objectively unique to each one experiencing comfortability. This is the first phase of awareness and understanding; it is the objective situation which ones senses pull spatial reason. Reliance on this leads to misconception and ignorance, as it is only a initial phase of awareness. It is the outer archetype among a system of deeper archetypes. It is the vanguard of awareness. One draws in information through the senses, thus ending the first phase of understanding reality.


-Story-


But as humans, we have more phases of understanding than the initial extraction of information through our senses. We can reflect this information on truth, and use discernment to figure out paths of decency. I use the word "can", because it is a choice phase. One may not be able to choose what the senses draw *from*, that is to say the color of paint, but one may still curve the brush and created the desired painting. Or if one is open enough for it, even find a unexpected/more desirable outcome. This is the substance which comprises the second phase of awareness and  understanding. It is a balance of desire and acceptance, and a discipline of maintaining that balance. 


-Song-


The next phase is a set of subconscious and unconscious patterns and activity. During this phase of awareness and understanding - ones propensity and 'heart' are established. The foundational elements which drive human desire are active in this phase, originally. To sense something into and through this phase means one has reached spiritual enlightenment. If not then one is still learning the discipline. Moral values, conscious important relationships with people and things, memories and dreams are all part of this phase. Ones awareness and understanding may be limited towards something, so one may feel the need to compensate by skipping straight from the first phase to this phase. However this phase is where the deepest understanding is found, and forcing it is VERY rarely a safe or helpful behavior. It is to ones detriment that they find this phase by forcing it, without going through the discipline of the former phases. It is an reactionary byproduct of impatience, and only goes to display ones personal negative attributes. It becomes like a joke that was taken too far for more than too long. So approaching this phase of awareness and understanding should be gradual, and through a path of acceptance rather than rejection. 

Spiritual Attunement

The human experience has 3 defining elements: body, mind, spirit. Ones body is their physical, material existence. Ones mind is the bridge connecting physical things to metaphysical things. Ones spirit is the constant culmination of body and mind - the influence they have on reality. Spirit is the ripple in the water, where the water is nature.

Responsibility for ones own influence is important for spiritual attunement. To be in tune with ones spirit, one must realize the consequences of their decisions and actions. One must also accept "consequence" is merely a point of view, or attitude towards influence. There is cause and effect, and consequence is just one classification of this phenomenon.

Angle and approach (perspective) guide ones self towards experience. Where one goes and what one does are results of choice. Every choice one makes plays a role in spiritual development. Every thought and movement, emotion and feeling. Dreams play a role in development as well, however they seem to be more so part of synchronicity with ones spirit, rather than growth. That is to say dreams are something we do which is a way for us to deeper connect with our own spirit.




There is a mass awareness occurring, of the disconnect between self and spirit. Spiritual awareness is the first step on the path of attunement. Once the path completes a journey, one should be better in synch with reality.

Spiritual Awareness

Self > selfs senses

Mankind is usually sense driven in most situations, rather than sense drivers. Personally I have found the experience to be a dead end for self development. Like deja vu the patterns are repeated for each combination of senses and emotions. Being aware of ones senses is one thing, but letting them guide ones fate isn't always reliable. Often does it happen though, that moderation gets passed on. Following ones senses instead of leading by the awareness they extract leads to ignorance and confusion. 

Spirit is a reflection of the behavior of ones personal choices. Spiritual state is the life of ones choices. A positive spiritual state is one that is cared for. Senses can blind ones spiritual awareness, and end one up in stupid situations. Society has long exhibited the struggle of balance between senses and spirit. The struggle between ones self and the self of others. Spirit becomes corrupted by authority, causing paths to violence to saturate ones history. It is a common case, as is evident with history of war and conflict. Such toxicity is being tolerated only enough to continue, but not thrive. 

Spirit is as diverse as the senses, on top of being a product of imagination. Indeed spirit is a combination of imagination, the senses, ones own physical position and history, and ones influence on reality. Because the population of humans is so dense, each ones spirit then becomes part of a pool; a collective. The health of each individuals spirit is reflected in the collective. Some are positive while some are negative. Some just seek neither side of the spectrum, or have any interest in the spectrum itself. Appropriately the diversity is reflected from the collective back into our civilization. We insist on seperating our lifestyles and ideologies to the point of racism, homophobia, and other types of toxic bigotry. This is the way negativity is reflected back from the collective, and into the individual. 

If ones spiritual state is not tainted with such obscenities, then a healthiness is easily experienced. However we often lose sight of our spiritual path due to our senses leading us into materialistic, superficial circumstances. We are a product of our environment, but it goes both ways. Our environment is a product of us as well, because it is the space and time in which our lives occur. When ones environment provides nothing towards positive spiritual development, ones spirit becomes stagnant like a bad tune. How does ones spirit become in tune with the nature of something? What is the resulting resonance and what does the vibrational influence do? Consider these things when questioning how ones self becomes out of tune with ones spirit. 

The answers to many questions are more simple than being right in front of ones self. The answers are within, in the same place ones questions are birthed and live. Questions and answers are delivered from the same womb, ejaculated from the same nut, and spoken through the same voice. They begin and end in the spirit. The quality of questions and answers we expose ourselves to, also play a role in spiritual health.

Rule

Semantics and imagination go together like white on rice. Mankind has taken the principles of semantics and melted it all down. After we became comfortable with how it played out, we let semantic principles harden, and over time become brittle.

Semantics became rules, and rules became laws. Laws became enforced and the cracks begin to show.

The evidence is clear, showing how warped our principles have become in society. I'm not implying it's 100% fucked, but we all are aware of a lot that is.

So how do we revive the lost excellence? Well whatever the cause, it's going to require teamwork. And a higher level of thinking, acceptance, and behavior in general.

Universe Pie

 Synchronicity goes well with patterns of behavior. Our entrees include sweetened reality, and a deeper connection/understanding of the universe

 Patterns of behavior
 Creation is behavior. But creation goes beyond the biblical capacity
 Creation is more intricate than anyone has a sense to fully experience
 That's why we are still learning, and have been learning in increments
 We have to adjust so we can learn the next realm of things
 That's historical behavior
 But never before in history has behavior been as fluid as it is today
 On a worldly scale
 At least that's my best attempt at projecting without a sense of my ego
 Possibly one of the silliest things I do
 We can recognize patterns of behavior
 Thinking back on my life, I always have
 Especially in people
 Because people have always been interesting to me
 Well
 a lot of people
 People like you!
 I can't get enough of
 My friends irl as well
 People I can be open without worries with
 Trustieziez
 I'm gonna digress. Sacred geomtry is sacred because it's fundamental patterns
 Literally it seems like everything can be based on from sacred geomtry
 Just go nuts in weavesilk for a little bit
 Scribble all over the page
 It turns nothing into something, to put it bluntly
 A mess into a masterpiece
 That's the behavior observed in everything from the realm of atoms, to the realm of galaxies
 That's a big window of shared behavior
 But it's just a window
 Things below the realm of an atom have quite different behavior
 As do things above the realm of galaxies
 There is then 3 windows
 The thing is
 A window in objectivity does not share the same potential as a window presented to the imagination
 ones imagination*
 A window in the imagination can demonstrate any view at all
 If you look through one side, anything could be on the other
 So that's great and all, but clutter can be a problem. So thoughts going every which way and  bumping into each other - not to mention with other peoples thoughts
 it's like fuckin thought traffic
 Sometimes it builds up to the point where everything stops
 Luckily my muscles aren't stupid
 And I do just fine
 But it sucks
 Self awareness is intense to get familiar with
 Most people spend their lives doing the bare minimum
 Or and in attempts to lower their personal bar
 Some people seek to raise their bar, and push themselves to new realms
 And some people are content with their situation enough to let it stay as it is
 And evolve organically without much self effort
 Often judged as lazy
 It's a discipline in itself
 That's the route I chose
 It's a way for me to submerge myself in options
 They don't come to me through a contract with fuel or something
 But as a human I am slightly inclined to destroy things
 For survival
 So I've accepted that
 But as a result the bar is raised
 It's a basic relationship with change in general
 And it's my personal chosen discipline
 Truly embracing ones nature means no stone unturned
 I gotta make myself naked, layer by layer
 I gotta be decent enough to accept everything
 And by the end I guess I'll know what I want to do

I appreciate the people in my life who let me talk my head off to them. They know I'm always thinking, but not always talking. So the random times I end up needing to talk a lot, they are cool when the flood gates burst.