A question from someone I know

[Guest guest]

frozen.... All details have been factually all docs have been

completely surprised. They called it the first prove of conscious

being alive always - how else could this terminally ill person which

was clinically dead to every parameter able to record everything in

such detail..... As a person who himself was always very

scientifically oriented (mind oriented) and at the same time born

with the inborn knowledge of the existence of the supreme Power i

tried always my best to combine both fields.... which is usually

impossible as long as a person is not ready to be really open in

every field to know that everything is possible that nothing is

impossible so you can imagine how impressed i was that this

scientific prove was shown in a video on BBC i do not have any

details of this programm but am sure BBC

World Service will help you ask for a documention about the

existence of consciousness after life and about this operation my

wife our boy an i saw this programm...... hoping to help you with

this information yours sincerely michael bindel

michael_bindel (AT) hotmail (DOT) com am ready to answer all your questions

- if possible Harsha <harsha (AT) (DOT) com> wrote: Dear

Friends,I received the following

e-mail from someone who is very close to me. I will call him Mr. N. Mr

N is a middle aged Hindu, a divorced father of two, who has never been

particularly religious and just recently started to wonder about the

mysteries of life. I told him that I would pass his questions on to

wise people and forward him any answers that I receive.If you are so

inclined and could make some comments, that would be appreciated.What

he writes is given

below.........Harsha_______

Harsha, after our telephone conversation, I would like to make

an observation and pose a question for the learned members in your

group so that I may be enlightened. I am looking for more thoughtful

answers than "well, when the body dies, EVERYTHING in it is gone for

ever!". Thats too simplistic. Here is my observation/question for

your group and I hope you won't laugh and dismiss this. Today’s

modern instruments can easily monitor the heart activity of a person

who is dying. Once the heart stops, the person is viewed as having

died.

The wave like patterns seen on the heart monitor suddenly turn into a

straight line when the person dies because the heart has stopped

functioning. But the two most important parts of our body are the

heart and the brain, and there is so little we know of the latter.

What EXACTLY happens to and in the brain when we die is not all that

clear. The brain is a most remarkable organ as it is the only organ

that has both physical and mental dimensions. As I

grow older, I find myself cogitating more about life in general, and

death in particular, as I consider death a part of life. In Hinduism,

it is believed that when the body dies, the soul lives on and, in

time, it attaches it self to another living form. As a layman, I

have no clue what a soul is, or how it is defined, but of late I have

been thinking much about what happens to the brain once a person dies.

I have no answers but only questions. Most people who die a natural

death have

lived a complete life, that has seen its ups and downs. By the time

they are in their death bed, their brain has retained a vast amount

of information, including the many many memories of that person’s

experience. Personally, I find it hard to believe that when a person

“dies”, all that information in the persons’s brain, including the

special memories, simply “disappear” from the scene and is “wasted”.

And gone forever. I would like to know what happens to it. Harsha, if

your group members or other friends know anything about this or have

some thoughts on the matter please forward these.

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[Guest guest]

Dear Harsha and Mr. N.,

I am quite

convinced that reincarnation does occur. I have reached that conclusion

through various personal experiences. I would like to relate those

circumstances that have caused me to believe reincarnation; but I don’t

know if I can write them down anytime soon. I have already recorded one

of those experiences in a story entitled “The Circle of Life as Taught by

Little Deer and Shakti”. That story can be found here:

http://www.spiritualsisters.com/bowes1.htm

I originally wrote this as a four part series and posted it on the NonDual Now

group; but it has been posted to this website as one single article.

As I mentioned

earlier, there are many things I wish I could tell you but for now please allow

me to offer you these conclusions. Somehow beings reincarnate. I

don’t understand how; but I do remember portions of at least one past

life. People ask why they can’t remember any former lives. I

sincerely believe that persons don’t remember because the eternal one has

been slumbering within them, lifetime after lifetime. It is not until the

awakening that the eternal soul experiences and retains certain memories that

then can pass from life to life.

The image of

this slumber is expressed in the classic image of Kali Ma while she stands upon

the prostrate body of Lord Shiva. And Hindus express the experience of

spiritual awakening in the term “twice born” which is one of the

descriptions of a Brahmin. Jesus also taught that one must be “born

again”. The eternal one can awaken within us, and it is the eternal

one that can retain certain memories from lifetime to lifetime because it is

the only thing that survives from life to life. But memories are not

always useful. Thankfully, we don’t remember many or even most of

the things that we have experienced in this life. Frankly, I don’t

want a bunch of memories swirling around in my mind. What would I do with

them? The only things that I can remember from a past life have been

useful to my spiritual life. I do not remember any mundane memories of a

previous life.

The awakening

teaches all things. It is your own undying, blissful Self. It is

never really born and it never dies. It is your immortal nature. Life

itSelf is all there is and there’s no such thing as death.

Warmest

regards,

michael

 

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- Ramana Guru] A question from someone I know

Dear Friends,

I received the following e-mail from someone who is very close to me. I will

call him Mr. N. Mr N is a middle aged Hindu, a divorced father of two, who has

never been particularly religious and just recently started to wonder about the

mysteries of life. I told him that I would pass his questions on to wise people

and forward him any answers that I receive.

If you are so inclined and could make some comments, that would be appreciated.

What he writes is given below.........Harsha

_______

Harsha, after our telephone

conversation, I would like to make an observation and pose a question for the

learned members in your group so that I may be enlightened. I am looking for

more thoughtful answers than "well, when the body dies, EVERYTHING in it

is gone for ever!". Thats too simplistic.

bold">

Here is my observation/question for your group and I hope you won't

laugh and dismiss this.

Today’s modern instruments can easily monitor

the heart activity of a person who is dying. Once the heart stops, the person

is viewed as having died. The wave like patterns seen on the heart monitor

suddenly turn into a straight line when the person dies because the heart has

stopped functioning.

But the two most important parts of our body are the

heart and the brain, and there is so little we know of the latter. What EXACTLY

happens to and in the brain when we die is not all that clear. The brain is a

most remarkable organ as it is the only

organ that has both physical and mental dimensions.

As I grow older, I find myself cogitating more about

life in general, and death in particular, as I consider death a part of life.

In Hinduism, it is believed that when the body dies, the soul lives on and, in

time, it attaches it self to another living form.

As a layman, I have no clue what a soul is, or how it

is defined, but of late I have been thinking much about what happens to the

brain once a person dies. I have no answers but only questions.

Most people who die a natural death have lived a

complete life, that has seen its ups and downs. By the time they are in their

death bed, their brain has retained a vast amount of information, including the

many many memories of that person’s experience. Personally, I find it

hard to believe that when a person “dies”, all that information in

the persons’s brain, including the special memories, simply

“disappear” from the scene and is “wasted”. And gone

forever. I would like to know what happens to it.

Harsha, if your group members or

other friends know anything about this or have some thoughts on the matter

please forward these.