What happens after you die?

[THoR]

I think we can be reasonable certain that the time of death is followed by a temporary, transitional process. Its beginning could be compared to a dream state where the subject doesn't realize he's dead, goes through weird changes until he transitions into something totally different. The Tibetans put this process to last about 49 days.
I would guess it may take longer than that, vary a great deal and depends on the kind of death, drugs, sickness, peacefulness, age, surprise, not wanting to let go etc.
As for reluctance, remember, didn't want to get born either? Everything was so nice and cozy until one day the landlord showed up to painfully and unceremoniously throw you out.

Something to think about:
* You were tiny when you began your trek into mortality...zygote sized. Do you become microscopic and if so how long does it take to walk to the liquor store?
* While you are awake, time seems to pass at a normal rate (relative to your living consciousness). When you sleep, your metabolism slows and time passes much more quickly. At death, does your internal metabolism slow to such a crawl that eons might pass in the 'blink of an eye'?

[Drifter]

We began this trek we're told, as a spark of energy and to that formless energy we must return. imho
Energy cannot be destroyed. The Absolute Energy, "The Etheric Force", is the Prime Mover ["Spanda" in the Vedas] of the Energy of the Relative World. imho Two interconnected vortices of Energy. One known and measurable, one not.
http://www.shaktitechnology.com/shiv...lmet/index.htm
Hatha, means wise / Wisdom... Yoga, means Union.

[jim barlow]

I think the situation with TIME adds to this theme.
I am thinking of happenings that had already taken place in time and are now in some "past" - a "spatial" reference to something that had been passed by a train. It is still "there" somewhere. (It probably doesn't "look" like it did when we were there and had added to it moment by moment). Nevertheless a village of our earthly life (along with its surrounding history) stands there vast somewhere in some "space".
This haunts me but I am not totally sold on it.
If time is not some relative of some motorized space (as we have liked to think since 1905) but instead is a combination of two or more components then the big picture of timelessness gets more enlarged.

[Drifter]

I think the situation with TIME adds to this theme.
I am thinking of happenings that had already taken place in time and are now in some "past" - a "spatial" reference to something that had been passed by a train. It is still "there" somewhere. (It probably doesn't "look" like it did when we were there and had added to it moment by moment). Nevertheless a village of our earthly life (along with its surrounding history) stands there vast somewhere in some "space".
This haunts me but I am not totally sold on it.
If time is not some relative of some motorized space (as we have liked to think since 1905) but instead is a combination of two or more components then the big picture of timelessness gets more enlarged.

I believe time is a component / Earthly (Ephemeral) aspect, of The Etheric Force. Always active in the now. The Observer is the time traveler. imo
Thanks for the stimulation.

[THoR]

Sorry to contradict uncle Al (Einstein), but time is neither a field nor a fabric. It is a measurement - the comparison between two or more relative rates of change. Space is a field The condition of fields may change, but to marry time and space is nothing more than a mathematical shortcut that leads to all sorts of misperceptions.

[Drifter]

Sorry to contradict uncle Al (Einstein), but time is neither a field nor a fabric. It is a measurement - the comparison between two or more relative rates of change. Space is a field The condition of fields may change, but to marry time and space is nothing more than a mathematical shortcut that leads to all sorts of misperceptions.

Well, Isn't That something! lol

Thanks for the exchange.
d.
btw THoR, What is Spanda?

[Drifter]

Sorry to contradict uncle Al (Einstein), but time is neither a field nor a fabric. It is a measurement - the comparison between two or more relative rates of change. Space is a field The condition of fields may change, but to marry time and space is nothing more than a mathematical shortcut that leads to all sorts of misperceptions.

Yesterday's History

Tomorrow's a Mystery

Today's a Gift

Called The Present

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwr4zCuEmw0&NR=1

[Drifter]

Cold Fusion! http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento...tent?oid=35071

Sonofusion, in theory at least, sidesteps some of the problems that have dogged other approaches to fusion. It takes advantage of an intriguing but little understood form of mechanical energy: the power of collapsing bubbles.
An experimental sonofusion reactor. The liquid inside contains deuterium, the fuel for nuclear fusion. The transducers on either side of the jar pound the liquid with sound waves. PHOTO BY LARRY DALTON



In 1995, Ross Tessien read a Scientific American article by professor Seth Putterman about the strange phenomenon called sonoluminescence. It has been known for years that collapsing bubbles generate heat, and sometimes even light.
By the mid-1990s, scientists were just beginning to understand how much heat was being created. Putterman, basing his research partly on previous work by physicist Gaitan, was among the first to speculate that the tiny bubbles might be made to create enough energy to drive fusion. He called the phenomenon “the star in a jar.”
Around that time, Tessien’s future partner, Gaitan, was working on sonoluminescence at the University of Mississippi. It was there that Gaitan discovered “single-bubble sonoluminescence,” the method of controlling one tiny bubble in liquid with acoustic energy, causing it to collapse and measuring the light it emits.

= 3 lbs of maleable flesh

Kind regards
d.

[Drifter]

Somnambulation: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/somnambulation

Samnolence:
NOTES:
So'mnop'athy, a variant of somnipathy, the word for a sleep disorder, has four consecutive letters from the alphabet.

(My Nap)imho


USAGE:
"The electorate entered a new phase of alertness following a sustained period of disengagement from politics, bordering on somnolence."
Hugh Mackay; Voters Sense a Howard Weakness; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Mar 10, 2007.

Explore "somnolence" in the Visual Thesaurus.


A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)


http://wordsmith.org/words/somnolence.html

[THoR]

Well, Isn't That something! lol

Thanks for the exchange.
d.
btw THoR, What is Spanda?

Spanda is a Sanskrit term for the subtle creative pulse of the universe as it manifests into the dynamism of living form.
It is also the Chinese nickname of Super Panda - an oriental hero icon that eats bamboo.