by Raffael A. Ferri PhD

Created on: June 22, 2010

Must we be born again? There are many concepts derived from religion that express their opinion of "Life after Death" - "Born Again". Our emotions create conflict with our ability to reason simply because we refuse to acknowledge the morbid facts of death. Fact is, after we die, our bodies are providing food for other organisms, and our DNA is carried off to perhaps thousands of different directions. These organisms are then eaten by larger organisms and the cycle continues. It is safe to reasonably assume that our bodies are history. This is where faith or religious beliefs interfere with logic. We want to believe that we are more than just an evolved germ. We want to believe that we have a "Soul" that will live on in another body, someday, down the line. This helps us cope with the loss of our loved ones and helps us deal with the inevitable.

Religions confuse issues far beyond any possibility of understanding. We quote from a "Bible" that has been incorrectly translated, willingly and carelessly, and then begin to preach it to anyone that is willing to listen. They use words that don't even exist in the "Bible" other than the existence provided by the manipulators of fixed translation, just to control people. We assume that the word of "G-D" is the word of "Jesus" or "Mohamed" only because the authorities of the times, insisted that it is so. Do we not know that Jesus, like Socrates, never wrote one single word. Plato and the Disciples have something in common- they quote their master on a "hear say" basis. In Science, this would not be acceptable. After all, Plato could have said anything and attribute it to his teacher, Socrates. The same is true with the Disciples. Why did they wait forty or more years to write what supposedly, Jesus had stated? How could they have remembered what transpired forty years or more ago? Was the witness of the resurrection a reliable source? All these concerns would be an important factor today. Perhaps in those days people lacked the ability to reason and wanted to believe in something other than the miserable lives they may have been living.

Kabbalah, or rather, writers of Kabbalah claim that we have three parts to our soul. The spirit is called the "Ruach" which is the energy that keeps us alive. The Ruach dies with our body, snuffed out, sort of speak. Then there is the "Nefesh" which represents our bodies. The Nefesh will hover around our dead body and watch it rot and decay. This could take one year or much longer, depending on the embalming process or if any at all. The "time-factor" , according to some writers, is dependant on how good a person you were. Finally there is the "Neshama" which is the part of us that returns immediately, upon death, to our Creator or the source of energy. Later, when there is a birth in the "same blood-family" the Neshama will enter the new body along with the Ruach and of course the new Nefesh. This of course gives new light as to the importance of pro-creation.

In summary, are we born again? Our bodies do not die, they live in other organisms and our soul (Neshama) waits for a descendent to be born again. However long it takes for evolution to carve its course is irrelevant, as time is not a factor when we are dead.

At present, I am writing another book, but this time it deals with the salvation of human-kind. It tells us how we can preserve human-kind with robots and a cloning system. Unfortunately, copy-write concerns will not allow me to say much more; however, you can get a glimpse of this by reading some of my other articles on Helium.

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