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Created on: February 19, 2007 Last Updated: May 15, 2007
"Life after death" is not simply a speculative possibility, it is a fact of physics. Any physicist knows that matter and energy are both (a)infinite, and (b) exclusive from one another. That is to say, matter does not produce energy, and energy does not produce matter. The energy that is our life force then, must be separate from the matter that is our bodies.
Form follows function in nature, which is to say that our bodies are a reflection of the energy that is our "mind", "spirit", "soul", "prana" or any of the myriad of terms used to label this energy. While neither matter nor energy can create one another, each can be manipulated by the other.
When our physical bodies (matter) are no longer viable, they break down into their elemental components and return whence they came. Does it make any less sense that our spirits (energy) also return whence they came? It most certainly does not. All of nature is cyclical. We are beings of energy who inhabit flesh for a time, before returning to our pure energy state. We are all eternal beings composed of energy, and we cannot for the life of us "die". We merely change. All things change, all things are connected.
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