A Meditation on the Nature of the
Afterlife
By Marcus Levis
2019-05-25
I
have spoken before on the nature of whether or not it is possible to prove my
existence in this life, but now I wish to take that one step further and add to
it by talking about what I feel may be the end goal of my purpose here. This is
something that I have thought about for a long time, and now that I am truly
taking that next step and thinking about and questioning the nature of
existence, I am willing to ask these tough questions and do the best I can to
answer them for myself. What is my purpose here? Why is it that we have a life,
gather as much knowledge as we can, affect as much as we can, and then just die
off and poof, all of that knowledge is gone and (according to most people
anyways) we then do not return to this same plain of existence, we die and go
off somewhere else...somewhere eternal.
I
wish to posit a potentially different view.
What
if, the knowledge that we gather, actually does go with us to the next life, and
that yes, according to what it would look like for those of us living right
now, it would be considered the “after-life” because it takes place after this
current existence is over. What if instead of it being that, it was preparing
us, or even judging us to see if karmically speaking we are worthy of moving on
to an existence where everyone is at the very least a good person. Where every
person who has been proven worthy and it is not just famous people who have
been known all of their lives for making change on a massive scale, but also
the common Joe or Jane who was a good person all of their lives will go, and
all of those with neutral or negative karma scores will be forced to repeat an
existence on this plane, to forget all of their knowledge gained, and do it all
over again.
What
if this next life that we are all working towards, will have us keep all of our
memories and knowledge, and have us then live among the others who have also
garnered a positive karmic score. In that life there will then be more trials,
different ones in what I will call Second Life (no longer after life, and it
will make sense in a minute why I am saying this), we will all be good and pure
of heart, but in order to move on from Second Life into Third Life, you must
set yourself apart during what may be a longer and more reflection-filled life.
To me, it is akin to what all Witches are told about Summerland (Wiccan
After-life), it is a warm place, where the weather is always perfect and the
setting is the perfect place to reflect on one's life and prepare to make the
inevitable return to this plane of exitance. The only difference I feel being
the fact that that will be what the next life is, that eventually you will die
in that realm and if you have set yourself even further apart from the rest of
the crowd (let us say there were 8 Billion people when you died in First Life,
and then when you got to Second Life there were only 5 Billion, it is about
setting yourself above those who are there and they come from all across human history),
then you will be able to move on to Third life, which will have even less
people (say 1 Billion) and it will have different challenges and tasks for your
longer life there and so on. Prove yourself in Third Life and you can move onto
Fourth Life with even fewer people who have set themselves apart from the
previous crowd (Say 500 Million) and so on and so forth until eventually there
is an end (I am not sure when or where, but there will be one) where you sit
among immortals who are talked of only in storybook context back in First Life
territory.
This
is First Life, and I fully believe that if we were only given the one life to
live, we would all be pushed towards experiencing only hedonistic pleasures, so
that when we die at the end of this life, we could say we have done stuff
before poofing out of existence forever. I do not believe this to be the case.
I think this life is set up as a testing grounds (as with the rest of them
going up) for the knowledge that we gain in this life, to them use it to help
our lives in Second Life if we get to move on to it, if we do not because of
some form of karmic imbalance, then when we die we will be reborn unto the same
plane of existence in First Life, with the karma bank reset and we will try it
again. There is no Heaven or Hell, but a world where the only people who live
there are people who have made positive contributions throughout their time in
First Life, where there would always be sunny days, green grass and cool
breezes. Where there would be no crime and where we could do as we please
because the universe would trust us to do so, is that not a comforting thought?
Something to drive one to want to do good in this life? For sure it is!
Marcus
Levis (Age 23)
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