Oddbean new post about login | logout fair enough. if we scale back "certainty" to just your beliefs/thoughts, do you think there is something beyond life?
I have no reason to believe in an afterlife because I have no recollection of a beforelife. Neither can I disprove it, but it seems to me that our consciousness is highly reliant upon the continued operation of a fragile organic computer we call a brain.
You speak my language 👍 . What I find is that you have to basically suspend your logical brain in order to be open to ideas that otherwise would seem ridiculous, which is hard for me to do. My logical brain has served me very well in life. And I've always wondered why God would design us with this logical brain, but then basically require that we suspend that logic to believe in things we cannot possibly understand? Maybe it keeps us humble to keep in mind that we don't know everything. However, I have to admit that recently in dealing with some difficult times, it has been helpful to allow myself to believe in something beyond life. Probably just a coping mechanism, but admittedly a helpful one.
Even very young children have different temperaments Why were are interested in certain things from a very young age Childhood prodigies The above give some clues to the before life. These are only things we need in this current life. Thankfully we forget most of baggage which comes with before lives. Upanishads give a good logical thought to explain it.
Upanishads explore the "subject" in us and inform that the subject in us is not the mind, body or intellect. According to the Upanishad thought. mind, body and intellect are also objects. The ultimate subject in us is the essential factor which makes body function, make the mind feel and make the intellect think. This essential factor is also called as God. The aim of human birth is supposed to be to realise that we are that God.