The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
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