by TurncoatFor some reason this makes me think of Donnie Darko.
Great flick.
I don't know how many, if indeed any, posters here will be interested in this subject, but just thought I would post in the event that anyone is:
Have just read an excellent review in a European magazine of Anthony Peake's latest book, Infinite Mindfield and it got me wondering if anyone here would find his view of human consciousness at death, and after death, interesting.
Peake's "afterlife" theory is not really an afterlife theory at all: There is nothing paranormal about it, it requires no Gods, no judgment, no heavens or hells, no ghosts, and no astral planes. It neither rewards the empath nor punishes the sociopath. It is based on brain science and the theory of time dilation and consciousness projecting itself.
This theory, which he calls Cheating the Ferryman (after the ancient myth of Charon at the River Styx), states (and is backed by the latest neuro-science) that at death, each of us has a second, higher self which will spin out a 3D IMAX repetition of our lives.
We relive our lives over and over again, and can make changes as we go along. The ferryman of death is cheated, as no one ever dies. There is no afterlife except the one you are in right now, as we are all probably dead and living in a 3-D recording.
There is no real point or purpose to this repetition , except to increase the quantity and quality of living. Someone who wishes to be ethical can be more so. But just as reality here reveals an enchanting wealth of types, so will it continue forever. Nietzsche of course advocated for such an "afterlife" and called it "the eternal recurrence of the same".
by Luna PreyThis is SO fascinating. My only question is.. how do you explain time? It's not just the individual changing things. Time changes. The envrionemnt changes. Some people don't have that much control over their lives.
Not that I am trying to push Peake's books ( I am his friend only, and do not work for him, although someone once started a nasty rumor that I was his paid agent) - but he explains all about time in his book , The Labyrinth of Time. What I can set forth here is that, we can (and he takes this from Gurdjieff) actually be born in different time lines, etc.---we may come back at a later point. We can even change our past, our parents, the way they live, by thinking about them now.....hard to set it down all at once...
by Luna PreyAlso, does that mean the universe itself is simply a simulation? What entity describes the variables to this simulation that obviously exists?
Yes, all consciousness is a recording, a three-dimensional IMAX, a record of what once was, including all we see: God, gods, planets, elephants, hip-hop celebrities, etc. There is another author, Eric Steinhart, who has a very similar theory, where there is no one God and no one Universe, but a never-ending plurality of gods, universes, devils, sociopaths, saints, etc.
