Death is a disappearing act.

We have all heard of the near death experiences of many people, there are stories of angels, harps, blinding light and spirits hovering around, something like a Harry Potter novel that has been picturised.

But when we try to analyze our thoughts about life after death, there are no testimonies or accounts of people who died, but returned to tell the tale. It’s all conjecture from here on, since no one has been sent back to earth for his “Karma” as is the belief in Hinduism and Far Eastern theology. The old adage that dead men tell no tales seems to hold good as far as after life goes. Some theories claim that there will be total emptiness or silence which means there is nothing left to experience.

Buddhism and other eastern theory which subscribes to rebirth have more fascinating theories. They say that the past life is like yesterday, exists as an illusion, which becomes non existent, as today unfolds. Then after life is transcendent acosmic, without any characteristics and from the Vedic viewpoint is - above time, space and causality ~ and death is likened toan intense metamorphosis in the eternal life of the soul. I don’t know how we can perceive this as it comes like a sort agnosia seen in blind people,where the senses cease to exist which is like the final Samadhi, once we cross the mysterious border of death and penetrate the next veil of Maya.

This gives us a lot of interesting fall outs to think about this realm, which is again part of the doctrine of duality. If scholastic theology is to the believed it gives you an illusion of something endless having some meaning but what is the meaning? It is like grandstanding without an audience an elusive intangible act t