The Infinite Beyond: Navigating the Profound Implications of Life After Death

Up until now, I have focused on the process of biomechanical death, our various names for it, and whether or not we go on beyond its limits.    I will continue to explore those themes in future essays, as well, but I wanted to take a bit of a different turn here and move into the studies of consciousness for at least this one essay.  I may follow this exploratory path if it leads me to do so into other future posts as well. 

Let's assume, for a moment, that it has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that life - consciousness, the mind, memories, whatever name you would like to assign to it at this point - continues after the final point in the process of biomechanical death.   Let this be an axiom from which we start the exploration here.   

Given, then, that we know that consciousness/life continues past the limits of the expiration of the physical processes of the body, what can we then take away from this? 

The reality is that the implications this may have are so profound it could change forever the way we look at our world, our environment, and even each other.  What would our world look like if we knew we lived forever? 

If life beyond death is a proven fact of our universe it will become a universal axiom and will open
doorways for us that we never knew were possible. 

All is One

We already are aware of reports from near-death experiencers that they often return with a humbled sense of awe and wonder, with a deeper sense of purpose and an increased love for others.   Oftentimes, the NDEs (near-death experiences) are accompanied by the strong sensation of being out of the body, as if leaving it behind or moving away from it, with approximately 65% of people who experience this near-death phenomenon indicating that they are located or are traveling in a space away from their body. In escaping the body, there is further evidence/testimony that these individuals may experience a deep sense of the interconnectedness of all - meaning they feel connected to all others in a way that is inexplicable when they are inside their individualized physical forms. 

We are all intertwined, perhaps. In one great big tapestry.   Each thread blending into the other, if you will.  And a world where this is recognized would be a world where individualized realities were much more tolerant of one another, and less adept at attempting to define other selves outside the One Self that connects us all.  Abuse and war would disappear over the curve of time when we realized that what we do to another, we do to ourselves. 

Inborn Equality

The understanding of our interconnectedness would eventually - again, over the curve of time - lead us to realize that the differences we see in each other are only the infinite expression of eternity reflected in us all.     And any inequalities or injustices we have created would be realized for what they are: a constructed by-product of an outdated mode of understanding that no longer would serve us.  Equality is innate; not legislated or contrived. We are born the same - human beings in wombs that feed and nurture until we can live on our own.   Our experiences thereafter make us different, but not unequal.  

Value of Service

In the world where we have proven that life continues beyond the established notions of biomechanical death, there is at least one more great change that we will see. And that's an enormous shift from the value of consuption to the value of service.   In the world where the life continuum occupies infinity, and is understod not to be bounded by a birth or a death, service to self and others becomes the highest of priorities.   In this new world, we would move away from the era of consumption (which has essentiallly existed since the dawn of the Industrial Age), and move toward an era of service - where work and life are geared toward service instead of money.   Money itself may even become an outdated and outmoded tool of exchange by this point.   

It's quite clear, no matter what hypothesis we make, that a world wherein we have proof of life beyond biomechanical death would look very different from the one we live in now.     To our current way of thinking, what I've written here sounds impossible and utopic - and based on current paradigm, it is indeed that way.   But these are our own limitations, shoved upon us by our limited cultural interpretations, of the phenomena of biomechanical death processes and their outcomes.   If we are to move beyond our current limitations, and I believe we can, we must consider that Max Planck may have been correct:  consciousness really is fundamental.