by Stephen Austen

Created on: February 13, 2009

Logical conclusions about life after death

For as long as humans have existed upon planet Earth mankind has pondered the question of human mortality and immortality. Every religion that ever existed has explored the question and most philosophies have done so also. In this article, I am going to try to present a logical case for reasons why I am thoroughly convinced that human consciousness (as well as the essence of all living things) survives physical death. I am going to base this contention upon my own direct and personal experiences as well as some very direct and logical conclusions based on natural physics.

I would like to express clearly that I do not actually believe that we can change the thoughts or opinions of someone who is most hardened against the concept of life after death, nor do I think it entirely a won argument to bring religious beliefs into the arena. It is true that probably all religions without exception do believe in some form of existence after death, although in varied forms yet sharing many similarities also. We could discuss the religious topic alone through many volumes. But my aim therefore, is to instead present some of the more prominent and perhaps up-to-date findings based on logic and research into the nature of matter itself and allow this logical rationale to support the proposition of life beyond the physical world as we understand it.

For my own part, I have had many personal experiences since babyhood which have convinced me that the soul (we will use that name for the consciousness aspect of our individuality) survives the death of the physical body adding that there are myriads of books and television programmes which expound upon this vast subject most compellingly. I do not necessarily hold that the pure weight of numbers of people believing in a subject or following a fashion is necessarily proof positive of a Truth revealed, but I do think that when enough people have had experiences which cannot be ordinarily explained in a logical way that it defies common sense to disbelieve them simply based on the grounds that because you may not have personally experienced these things for yourself they therefore cannot be true. If someone travels to Australia and returns and tells me about it I do not then disbelieve that Australia exists simply because I have never been there. Even in the days long before television or radio the stories of explorers were not necessarily disbelieved based on the fact that the listeners had

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