A Scientific View of Life After Death

What if we've got it backwards, that we humans spend our entire lives fearing death when death is actually the beginning?  I'm not talking Heaven, Paradise, reincarnation or some other mythical religious fable; I'm talking about the possibility that death is actually birth (and vice versa).  

Follow me here:  We view birth as the beginning of life & death as the end, but what if it's just the opposite?  We're born screaming into these bodies that are decaying from the moment of conception.  During our lives we witness untold amounts of suffering in the form of war, illness, poverty, unbridled narcissism & abuse of power while knowing that everyone we love will someday die, including ourselves.  This knowledge looms heavy over our heads like a dark cloud as our bodies grow older & become increasingly wracked with pain & sickness with every passing year.  We're trapped; held hostage on this physical plane to witness life's countless traumas & cruelties.  Some of us have it slightly better than others but it's entirely an accident of chance.  Life itself is a cruel lottery where nothing is guaranteed except suffering.  Yet it's death that we fear.

What if death is actually birth?  A glorious liberation from these meatsack prisons into another dimension beyond our wildest imaginings, where we can travel through time and space without restriction?  At the moment of death, the energy that powers our central nervous systems just slips out into the atmosphere & returns to the ether like water that's evaporated into invisible steam.  According to the laws of physics & chemistry, this possibility is quite likely as energy can neither be created nor destroyed.  The universe is a closed system--nothing new is ever created nor nothing old destroyed.  It just changes form.  This includes the energy powering every metabolic process inside our bodies which includes the consciousness inside your mind.

Speaking of consciousness, no one has been able to scientifically define consciousness or pinpoint its origins, i.e. whether it's generated from within the brain or comes from outside & is picked up by the brain the way an antenna picks up a signal and transmits it to an old analog television set.  Either way, your consciousness had to be "somewhere" before you were born into this body.  And it will return to that place when you die.  We have no idea where or what that place is, but it might make this life look like what we imagine Hell to be.  Just because we can't perceive that other dimension with these incredibly limited 5 senses does not mean it doesn't exist and isn't magnificent.  

Accounts of near-death experiences often include stories of floating above one's own body, looking down on the scene below as if the consciousness is ascending.  While a lot of these stories are likely crap, some have been verified & are quite compelling.  They follow a specific sequence that make it unlikely they're merely a result of "the brain going haywire" & often have a life-changing effect on patients who experience them.  It's the closest thing we'll get to knowing what happens at the moment of death until it happens to us, at least.

I guess the point of this post is:  Never fear death because there's no guarantee that the human experience is the best experience.  Quite the opposite.  Like other forms of mass & energy, we may change shape but we never cease to exist.  

No psychedelic plants or animals were harmed in the making of this post.  😆