Death

Every beginning has an end, and every end has a beginning. Birth, Life, Death, Repeat. The cycle of life is the circle of life.



Death is the cessation or stopping of all biological functions that sustain an organism. Biological Processes are the processes vital for a living organism to live and experience life. Death is a part of all life. Everything that lives eventually dies.

Clinical Death - Causes of Death - Mortality Rate - Life Expectancy - Longevity - Matter - Entropy

Inanimate is appearing to be dead or not breathing or having no perceptible pulse. Not endowed with life.

Mortal is an organism that is subject to death or will experience loss of life. A human being.

Immortal - Spirit - Soul - Heaven - Paranormal

Mere is being nothing more than specified. Apart from anything else. Without additions or modifications.

Impermanence asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is transient, evanescent and inconstant. All temporal things, whether material or mental, are compounded objects in a continuous change of condition, and subject to decline and destruction. But we do have some permanence to a certain degree, if we didn't, we would not be here.

Inconstant is something that is likely to change frequently without apparent or cogent reason.

Evanescent is something that is likely to vanish like vapor.

Transient is something lasting a very short time.

Transformative - Variable

I can't tell you what will happen when you die, because I don't know. All I can say is that you should probably have an open mind and try not to expect or assume what will happen when you die. I would focus more on your life and how you live. Live a good life that is worth remembering and live a life of purpose. Your body will someday die, but your kind and loving words and your work can live forever. So get your house in order, your life is your legacy and a gift that can be inherited by anyone.

We should focus more on Life itself and not so much on the afterlife. We know more about Life then we know about the afterlife, so we should stick with what we know and not waste so much time on things that we may never know. Pretending to know what happens when you die does not solve any problems or make life better, it only seems to make life better, which will keep you from actually making life better.

You can't take it with you when you go. So what can you take with you? Can I bring a carry on? Is my soul the only thing that I can take with me when I die? I'm not sure how this works. I haven't even figured out what life is yet, and now I have to figure out what death is. So I hope there is someone there to guide me and help me through this transition. With over 170,000 people dying each day, that is a lot of people for the after life to process. So take a number and wait in line, it's going to be a long wait.

"If you are alive, you should consider yourself to be a miracle, because you are a miracle."

Is Death a Transition? Like when liquid water transforms into a gas, the water is still there, it's just that the water is in another form or in another state of existence. Since humans are mostly water, maybe humans also transform in some way. The body is gone, but the person still exists in another form or in another state or dimension. But what happens when you don't have a body? How do you see when you don't have eyes? How do you feel without the bodies senses? How do you experience emotions when there is no human body? Is this why people feel calmness when they have a near death experience? So you have to wonder, am I my body, or am I my spirit? Do I need to have an out of body experience to understand that I am more then just a body? So you see, there's many questions and not many answers. It's best if you don't make assumptions or pretend to know things. Keep learning and keep educating yourself and prepare yourself for anything. Because life is full of surprises, which makes death just another surprise.

If you all of a sudden you stopped receiving information, how would you know? You would have to be aware of the information, and also understand the information. If you're not existing, how will you know if you don't exist, if you don't exist? The only way to know about a previous existence, is to still exist on some level, and what level is that? Kind of like a light switch, you can turn the light off and stop the electrons from flowing, but the electrons still exist. Kind of like hibernation.

No one was given a choice to be born, and you're not really given a choice when you will die. You may choose a time to die, but what happens after you die, no one knows. But seeing that everything alive has cycles, I would think that some part of us lives on, because humans have more then just an evolution of the body, humans have an evolution of the mind. So something wonderful is going to happen, something wonderful. Past Life Memories.

Death happens to everything, and yet we still know very little about what happens when we die. Most people don't think about death. It's not because people are in denial, it's just hard to think about something that you cannot easily explain. And it's hard to plan for death when you don't know exactly when you will die. So fearing the unknown makes no sense. So we should live as if we will never die but be ready for that day when we do die. Because we know that we will die someday. This is why we need to have more education about death and about life itself. Everyone will have those moments in their life when they fear death. But it's not really the fear of death, it's more about the fear of not living anymore and not having a life. Thinking about not living anymore is more frightening than death itself. But how can you have life without death? How can something so beautiful have an end? But what is "End"? There are some people who think that they will go to a heaven, but I try not to make too many assumptions. We know that life and death is a cycle. So I assume that I am part of this cycle and that I will be recycled like everything else on this planet has done for millions of years. If our soul or spirit does live, I assume our soul or spirit will be in the form of pure energy.

Is impermanence just another transition?

The strongest belief a human can have, besides believing in God, is that people believe that they are not bound to the human body and that their soul will continue to live after the body dies. The only problem with that belief is that our brain and body creates our consciousness, so how will our soul, or consciousness, survive without our body and mind? People who have a near death experience recall feeling complete calmness and tranquility, which also shows how our body effects and influences our mind. So if our soul does survive the death of our body, it will be nothing like we feel now. Consciousness will take on a whole new meaning, which is kind of exciting to think about. I wouldn't want to fear death because I wouldn't want to ruin the experience of dying, I mean I would fight to live, but if faced with death, I want to be wide awake and aware and to be proud to have lived.

"I might not know when I'll die, but I sure know that I lived. "It's amazing how everyone is living and dying simultaneously."

"Think of yourself as dead, you have lived your life, now take what's left and live properly." - Marcus Aurelius

"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." ~ "Sonmi-451" from Cloud Atlas 2012 Film.

What was "I" before " I " was born? I assume there will be no "Me" or "I" when I die, for "the self" is only related to my human form. A human form that I will no longer have after my body dies. If I am not "Me" or "I" that what will I be? Will I become pure energy? Will I be a seed?

Your parents did not bring you into this world, they just contributed to the genetic material that gave you the vessel to be in this world, just like their parents did for them, and so on. We know nothing about where we came from and we know nothing about what happens to us when we die, which is most likely by design, why else? Someone has given us a puzzle, a puzzle that will never have all the pieces, but just enough pieces to keep us wondering what those missing pieces are, which may also be by design. It seems that God is a genius, and God wants us to be a geniuses too.

The death of a loved one is a very traumatic event, and everyone grieves differently. Everyone experiences death, and over time those experiences shape who we are and shape our perception of the world. All I can say is please don't give up. The memories of our loved ones will always be there, but make sure they are good memories and not painful memories. The memories of loved  ones should bring us smiles, and if they are tears, let them be tears of joy. Everyone has something to give, and our life means more now then ever, so please don't waste it on sorrow.

Everyone hopes to have a peaceful death, but not everyone brings peace to life, why?

Why do people all of a sudden become more interested in someone when they die? Don't wait to tell someone how you feel.

We can witness death and feel its pain and its sorrow, but our own death will always be a mystery. But the facts remain the same, billions have lived and died before my birth and billions will live and die after my death.

Dead as a Doornail is an expression that originated from building doors. Doors were built using only wood boards and hand-forged nails. The nails were long enough to dead nail the vertical wooden panels and horizontal stretcher boards securely together, so they would not easily pull apart. This was done by pounding the protruding point of the nail over and down into the wood. A nail that was bent in this fashion could not easily be pulled out, so it was said to be "dead", thus dead as a doornail.

Clinical Death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and of many other organisms. Most tissues and organs of the body can survive clinical death for considerable periods. Blood circulation can be stopped in the entire body below the heart for at least 30 minutes, with injury to the spinal cord being a limiting factor. Detached limbs may be successfully reattached after 6 hours of no blood circulation at warm temperatures. Bone, tendon, and skin can survive as long as 8 to 12 hours. The brain, however, appears to accumulate ischemic injury faster than any other organ. Without special treatment after circulation is restarted, full recovery of the brain after more than 3 minutes of clinical death at normal body temperature is rare. Usually brain damage or later brain death results after longer intervals of clinical death even if the heart is restarted and blood circulation is successfully restored. Brain injury is therefore the chief limiting factor for recovery from clinical death. Brain failure after clinical death is now known to be due to a complex series of processes called reperfusion injury that occur after blood circulation has been restored, especially processes that interfere with blood circulation during the recovery period. Control of these processes is the subject of ongoing research. Coma.

Legal Death is the recognition under the law of a particular jurisdiction that a person is no longer alive. In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death (variously called) or the identification of a corpse is a legal requirement for such recognition. A person who has been missing for a sufficiently long period of time (typically at least several years) may be presumed or declared legally dead, usually by a court. When a death has been registered in a civil registry, a death certificate may be issued. Such death certificate may be required in a number of legal situations, such as applying for probate, claiming some benefits, or making an insurance claim.

Presumption of Death occurs when an individual is believed to be dead, despite the absence of direct proof of the person's death, such as the finding of remains (e.g., a corpse or skeleton) attributable to that person.

Faked Death or staged death, is the act of an individual purposely deceiving other people into believing that the individual is dead, when the person is, in fact, still alive.

Dying

Dying is the event of dying or departure from Life. The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism. The absence of life or state of being dead. The time when something ends. The time at which life ends; continuing until dead. A final state.

The personification of death. Transition.

Thanatology is the scientific study of death. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the post-mortem period, as well as wider psychological and social aspects related to death.

Senescence is the gradual deterioration of function characteristic of most complex life forms, arguably found in all biological kingdoms, that on the level of the organism increases mortality after maturation. Cell Death.

Memento Mori is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards. Memento mori is Latin for 'remember that you have to die'. The most common motif is a skull, often accompanied by one or more bones. Often this alone is enough to evoke the trope, but other motifs such as a coffin, hourglass and wilting flowers signify the impermanence of human life. Often these function within a work whose main subject is something else, such as a portrait, but the vanitas is an artistic genre where the theme of death is the main subject. The Danse Macabre and Death personified with a scythe as the Grim Reaper are even more direct evocations of the trope.

End of Life Care (death wish)

Last Rites are the last prayers and ministrations given to many Catholics when possible shortly before death.

Obituary - Legacy - Mourning - Grieving - Stress - Cemetery Burial - Burying Options

Cotard Delusion is a rare mental illness in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that he or she is already dead.

Mortality Salience is the awareness by an individual that his or her death is inevitable.

Death Personification is an imagined personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper. In some mythologies, the Grim Reaper causes the victim's death by coming to collect them.

Grim Reaper is the belief that death is a person that comes to collect you and take you away from life.

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (youtube) - Wiki

Death Anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death. Death anxiety differs from necrophobia, which is the fear of others who are dead or dying or the irrational fear of dead organisms such as corpses, as well as, things associated with death such as coffins, tombstones, funerals, cemeteries.

Thanatophobia is an intense fear of death or dying, or an irrational or disproportionate fear of death, especially one's own.

Fear of the Unknown - Fatalism - Fear Mongering - Pretending to Know - Civilization Collapse - War - Violence - Disease - Depression

Apeirophobia or the fear of infinity is an extreme phobia about eternal or everlasting things such as life, death etc. No one lives forever, but even the very idea of doing so is extremely scary for the individual suffering from it. It is the phobia of infinity and/or eternity, causing discomfort and sometimes panic attacks. It normally starts in adolescence or earlier and it is currently not known how it normally develops over time. Apeirophobia may be caused by existential dread about eternal life or eternal oblivion following death. Due to this, it is often connected with thanatophobia or fear of dying. Sufferers commonly report feelings of derealization which may cause the perception of a dreamlike or distorted reality. Existential OCD may sometimes be the cause of obsessive thoughts about infinity or eternity, which can lead to or trigger apeirophobia.

Cosmicism is a belief that there is no recognizable divine presence, such as God, in the universe, and that humans are particularly insignificant in the larger scheme of intergalactic existence.

Terror Management Theory proposes a basic psychological conflict that results from having a desire to live, but realizing that death is inevitable.

One Foot in the Grave means that they are very old or very ill and will probably die soon.

Death by Natural Causes does not exist. The end result of an illness or an internal malfunction of the body not directly caused by external forces is not natural and not typically due to old age. This is especially true when an elderly person has several different conditions or diseases, but where it appears that none of them alone or together may clearly lead to the death, and it is uncertain which condition was the final factor causing death.

We Don't Really Die

If matter doesn't disappear, but is simply transformed, then no one fully dies. We're not fully alive, but we are not totally dead either.

Conservation of Mass - Conservation of Energy - Quantum Teleportation - Bell's Theorem - Physical Information - Matter

21 Grams is the measure of mass that is lost by a human when the soul departed the body at death.

Thermodynamics - Human Energy - Cells

Near-Death Experience is a personal experience associated with death or impending death, encompassing multiple possible sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light.

So how can a dying person rise above their own body and look down upon themselves when they don't have the eyes to see? Does this prove that energy needs no eyes to see? Or is this only a temporary state of mind, a mind that is saying goodbye? Near death people also say they feel an incredible calmness. Does this calmness come from the absence of emotion that is only related to the human body? Not really because people who meditate experience calmness when they learn to free themselves from their emotions and maybe their body. Some people say that your life flashes before your eyes in the moments before you die. Like a brief summary of your life, kind of a last reminder of who you were, right before you cross over to the other side. Some people also see a bright white light in the moments before they die. So a few surprises await us. But till then, I know more about life then I do death, so I will live, and I will learn as much as I can before I die so that I can pass on my knowledge and information, just like all the other life forms have done before me for millions of years. This I assume is why I am here. Everything they have learned has brought me here, Why? Exactly! Depersonalization.

Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain. A small study finds intriguing brain wave patterns in comatose patients who died following cardiac arrest. Consciousness does not completely disappear, even after the heart stops beating.

Near Death but not Dead, powering down slowly - Body Freezing.

There is no near death experience. You're either dead or alive. You can come close to death, but you will not experience death or know what death is until you are totally dead. You will never know what life is until you learn what living is and also describe life in meaningful ways. You can't be born again unless you're talking about reincarnation, or when you finally wake up. Immortality is a fantasy for selfish and narrow minded people.

Although doctors have long thought that the brain suffers permanent damage about 10 minutes after the heart stops supplying it with oxygen, our work found that the brain can show signs of electrical recovery long into ongoing CPR. This is the first large study to show that these recollections and brain wave changes may be signs of universal, shared elements of so-called near-death experiences. Experiences of death to be different from hallucinations, delusions, illusions, dreams, or CPR-induced consciousness. Awareness during Resuscitation. It has been hypothesized that owing to a variety of physiologic variables, such as autoregulation, comorbidities, and cerebral ischemic thresholds, it is possible for patients receiving high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation to maintain consciousness. The study authors hypothesize that the "flatlined," dying brain removes natural inhibitory (braking) systems. These processes, known collectively as disinhibition, may open access to "new dimensions of reality, including lucid recall of all stored memories from early childhood to death. Deep Meditation.

Past Life Regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions or a type of confabulation. "I believe that the reason why we don't remember past lives is so that life feels like it's the very first time. You start life over fresh, and you experience life as if it were the very first time that you were ever alive. This is most likely by design, because it just makes sense." History.

"I believe that reincarnation is happening on some level. So how do I find myself in the next life? I will have to document everything that I have learned, and then I will have to leave this valuable knowledge and information where I will be able to find it in my next life. Sounds easy, but it is extremely difficult, but not impossible."

Duality of Presence, Life After Death.

Is there Life After Death? Depends on what you mean by the word 'life'? The next life will not be the same as this life, so what kind of life will it be? I would not say "Life After Death", I would say that there is "Something After Life", it's not death, but it isn't life either. It's something, something wonderful. Maybe when we die we wake up in an alternate parallel universe. Surprise!

Parallel Universe is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes are called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality. While the terms "parallel universe" and "alternative reality" are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term "alternative reality" that implies that the reality is a variant of our own.

4th Dimension - Space Time - Virtual Reality

Multiverse is the hypothetical set of possible universes, including the universe in which we live. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The various universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "other universes", or "alternative universes".

Interdimensional Hypothesis is a hypothesis of other realities or dimensions that coexist separately alongside our own. Inter-dimensional Being suggests that an entity can time travel and move out of the physical body into a spiritual one.

Astral Plane is a plane of existence postulated by classical, medieval, oriental, and esoteric philosophies and mystery religions. It is the world of the celestial spheres, crossed by the soul in its astral body on the way to being born and after death, and is generally believed to be populated by angels, spirits or other immaterial beings. Another view holds that the astral plane or world, rather than being some kind of boundary area crossed by the soul, is the entirety of spirit existence or spirit worlds to which those who die on Earth go, and where they live out their non-physical lives. It is understood that all consciousness resides in the astral plane. Some writers conflate this realm with heaven or paradise or union with God itself, and others do not.

Virtual Reality - Wormhole

Afterlife is the concept that an essential part of an individual's identity or the stream of consciousness continues to manifest after the death of the physical body. According to various ideas about the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, of an individual, which carries with it and may confer personal identity or, on the contrary, may not, as in Indian nirvana. Belief in an afterlife, which may be naturalistic or supernatural, is in contrast to the belief in oblivion after death. In some views, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual realm, and in other popular views, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past. In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm or Otherworld. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics. Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by God, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life. In contrast, in systems of reincarnation, such as those in the Indian religions, the nature of the continued existence is determined directly by the actions of the individual in the ended life, rather than through the decision of a different being. Life After Death (wiki) - The Before Life.

Heaven is the great gathering, a special meeting place, a beautiful garden, a nirvana, or any place of complete bliss, delight and peace. Heaven is the housing that someone is living in. Heaven or seven heavens, is common religious, cosmological, or transcendent place where beings such as gods, angels, jinn, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or to live. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to earth or incarnate, and earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife, or in exceptional cases enter Heaven alive. Thin Place.

Hell is an afterlife location in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, often torture, as eternal punishment after death. Poverty is Hell on Earth for the innocent, while the real evil souls roam free. Devil.

Underworld is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. Cast System.

Hellscape is a harsh environment, an extremely unpleasant place, or a scene thought to resemble hell. Writers have sometimes described wartime environments as hellscapes, and after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the cities were defined as such by its survivors. Writers have also used hellscape to describe the scene of a natural disaster such as a drought, plague, flood, or wildfire. Projections of the consequences of global warming have been described by journalists as hellscapes.

Firmament is the heavens or the sky, especially when regarded as a tangible thing. In biblical cosmology, the firmament is the vast solid dome created by God during his creation of the world to divide the primal sea into upper and lower portions so that the dry land could appear.

The problem with heaven, or let's say, I have a question about heaven. So when I get to heaven, and I see some person who was an asshole in life,  I would have to ask, "how in the hell did this person get into heaven?" I assume that when we get to heaven, we some how miraculously learn how to forgive everyone, and for some reason, we now understand more all because we are dead. We should learn this when we are alive, for heavens sake. if you're waiting for heaven to figure out your life, you're too late. You have to do what is good now. Heaven can wait. Humans have a lot of work to do.

Heaven - The Psychedelic Furs (youtube) - Heaven is the home of our hearts, And heaven won't tear you apart.

Valhalla is the great hall in Norse mythology where heroes slain in battle are received. A place of honor, glory, or happiness : heaven an academic's Valhalla.

"If there is another universe, I would not assume to know what the other universe is like. I believe in God, but I'm not going to pretend to know what God is like. It's nice to fantasize about who God is and fantasize about other universes, but I'm too busy trying figuring out what this life is and why this life is so freaking incredible. So I can't justify wasting time imagining that there is something more amazing than this, especially when I'm living in a amazing moment already. It's best to spend time figuring out the reality you're in than to dream about other realities that may not even exist. You're better off questioning things than pretending to know things. Questioning is a path to understanding, pretending is a path that leads to no where, like a rabbit hole for your mind."

You should learn how to live a decent and respectable life instead of pretending that you know what will happen when you die. If you really want to be saved, you must first admit that you are ignorant about a lot of things in life. To think that there is eternal life or a life that goes on forever, is even more terrifying than dying itself. No one really knows what happens after death. But we do know what happens when we are alive. The fear of dying is more about the fear of not living. It's really hard to except that all our memories and everything that we were in life will end when we die, which is a really hard thing to let go of and really painful to think about. But our memories don't have to die if we write them down and preserve them, just like millions of people have done in the past throughout human history. If people did not pass on their knowledge and preserve knowledge, then no one would be alive. Their bodies and their identities may be gone, but they still live on in all of us. If you can just let go of the self, you can live in peoples hearts and minds till the end of time. Our DNA is just a small percentage of the information that we will leave behind. The majority of information that we will leave behind will be in the words that we write and share. This is why so many people love religious text. It is one of the best symbols of knowledge preservation that humans have. And now that the world has generated an enormous amount of new knowledge and new information, that means we have a lot of new books to write. Books that will hopefully be able to stand the test of time.

Intelligent Design - Simulation Theory

Some people think that when they die that things will finally get explained to them. That's like sitting around your whole life waiting to be enlightened without even learning. People have to learn that learning is their responsibility. Everything that people have today is from millions of our ancestors learning valuable things over thousands of years. Yet today, people know so very little because they consider learning to be someone else's job. The lack of knowledge that schools, universities and the media produces is criminal. And because people are ignorant to these problems, they will never do anything to stop these problems because most people don't know what to do, and they don't like to learn how to make improvements. Subdued by ignorance. It's not just brainwashing, its brain poisoning and brain damaging.

Elysium is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults. Initially separate from the realm of Hades, admission was reserved for mortals related to the gods and other heroes. Later, it expanded to include those chosen by the gods, the righteous, and the heroic, where they would remain after death, to live a blessed and happy life, and indulging in whatever employment they had enjoyed in life.

Purgatory is an intermediate state after physical death in which some of those ultimately destined for heaven must first "undergo purification (the act of purging of sin or guilt) so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven". Passport Please, Show me your Papers!

Therianthropy is the mythological ability of human beings to metamorphose into other animals by means of shape-shifting. It is possible that cave drawings found at Les Trois Frères, in France, depict ancient beliefs in the concept. The most well known form of therianthropy is found in stories concerning werewolves. Jekyll and Hyde

Biological Lifecycle is a series of changes in form that an organism undergoes, returning to the starting state.

Rebirth - Reincarnation - Cycles

"Don't worry, I'll pay you back in my next life, I promise."

Recycled in ecological is the movement and exchange of organic and inorganic matter back into the production of living matter.

Gnosis signifies a knowledge or insight into man's real nature as Divine, leading to the deliverance of the Divine spark within man from the constraints of earthly existence.

Crossing Over to the Other Side - Break On Through to the Other Side (youtube) - You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run, Tried to hide, Break on through to the other side, Break on through to the other side.

Born to Die - Lana Del Rey (youtube) - So choose your last words, this is the last time, cause you and I, we were born to die. Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind, I was so confused as a little child, tried to take what I could get, scared that I couldn't find, all the answers, honey.

Is it possible that Quantum Information can exist outside our body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul? Or is my soul a signal?

Awareness - Space - Aura - Time Travel

Suspended Animation is the slowing or stopping of life processes by exogenous or endogenous means without termination. Breathing, heartbeat, and other involuntary functions may still occur, but they can only be detected by artificial means.

Quantum Suicide and Immortality is a thought experiment that attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, from the cat's point of view. Quantum immortality refers to the subjective experience of surviving quantum suicide regardless of the odds.

The Circle of Life

Bardo Thodol is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The soul passes through three stages, also called bardos. The first, chikkhai bardo, has the soul at the moment of death experiencing the “clear light of reality.” Chonyid bardo, the second stage, is where the soul sees different Buddha forms. In the third stage, sidpa bardo, the soul is reborn. It takes several years to find the reincarnated Dalai Lama. Several articles, only some of which were owned by the previous Dalai Lama, are placed in front of the child. If he chooses the correct items, this is read as a sign, along with the previous signs and some set of secret signs, that he is the tulku. Next, three of the former Dalai Lama’s servants who knew him well are asked to confirm the child’s identity; other officials are also required to sign off on it, too.

Circle of Life is a Cycle of Transition.

Triskelion or triskeles is an ancient motif consisting of a triple spiral exhibiting rotational symmetry. The spiral design can be based on interlocking Archimedean spirals, or represent three bent human legs. It is found in artefacts of the European Neolithic and Bronze Age with continuation into the Iron Age especially in the context of the La Tène culture and related Celtic traditions. The actual triskeles symbol of three human legs is found especially in Greek antiquity, beginning in archaic pottery and continued in coinage of the classical period.

Ascended Master is the belief that spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations. Associated with the number 33, their purpose is to guide humanity towards a better life.

Impermanence asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant". All temporal things, whether material or mental, are compounded objects in a continuous change of condition, subject to decline and destruction. All physical and mental events are not metaphysically real. They are not constant or permanent; they come into being and dissolve. The Pali word for impermanence, anicca, is a compound word consisting of "a" meaning non-, and "nicca" meaning "constant, continuous, permanent". While 'nicca' is the concept of continuity and permanence, 'anicca' refers to its exact opposite; the absence of permanence and continuity. The term is synonymous with the Sanskrit term anitya (a + nitya). The concept of impermanence is prominent in Buddhism, and it is also found in various schools of Hinduism and Jainism. The term also appears in the Rigveda. Impermanence, also known as the philosophical problem of change, is a philosophical concept addressed in a variety of religions and philosophies.

Phowa is the practice of conscious dying or the transference of consciousness at the time of death.

An individual’s karma is created by the motivations behind his actions taken over each of his previous lives, with each action creating a seed that grows to fruition in later lives. The Chinese invaded Tibet in 1949, and since 1959, when the Tibetan’s national uprising was brutally suppressed.

Ouroboros is a symbol of a dragon or a snake eating its tail that has its roots in ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology. The Ouroboros is regarded as a representation of rebirth and death. A snake or dragon consumes itself to pass away, yet self-fertilization allows it to resurrect.

Believing that a human soul can survive death and live again in another body and time, is not that unusual if you understand physics. Photons have no matter. Waves can transmit information. And if you have something to extract the information and translate the information, then you could receive a message, similar to how you receive television shows on your TV and receive messages on your smartphone. The Human Brain is a receiver of information.

Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner (youtube)

Not being able to remember your past life is a good thing, and most likely by design. This way life will always feel fresh, and life will seem new and exciting. And on top of that, you probably don't want to remember everything about the past life's that you had, this is because it would be confusing and overwhelming, especially remembering all the horrible things that happened to you. Living forever would be more of a curse, and not a blessing. If you want to remember what you learned and experienced, you should write things down and record your experiences. The written language is a reincarnation tool. You don't really need to remember all the details of your past life, you just need to know what were the most important things that you have learned in your previous life. So how do you make your knowledge and information accessible in your next life? Write down everything important that you learned in your life and then make sure that you leave plenty of copies behind so that you will eventually find it in your next life. It doesn't need to have your name on it, but some catchy name like Basic Knowledge 101. Kind of like in that movie Total Recall, you should leave yourself a clue somewhere, so it will not have to totally start all over again.

Quantum Leap is an American science-fiction television series from March 25, 1989 through May 5, 1993, that was about a physicist who involuntarily leaps through spacetime during experiments in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct what he consistently discovers were historical mistakes.

"If I improve the world in my life, I could benefit from my actions in future lives, and if not me, at least millions of people will."

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding.

What Dreams May Come - Trailer 1998 (youtube)

Life After Life, instead of life after death.

The Ways that People Die

Are humans having a spiritual experience, or are spiritual beings having a human experience?

Separated at Birth

To say that YOLO or "You Only Live Once", is not even accurate anymore. With the possibility of reincarnation, and the fact that you can have a positive effect on the world that could possibly live forever, like all the other positive effects that you and I have benefited from, all contributed by millions of other people who lived and died before you and I were born. And also the trillions of people who will live after you, so you might live forever, as long as you remember that there is no you or I, only us.

Para-Normal - Beyond Normal Senses

Paranormal is something seemingly outside normal sensory channels. Not in accordance with scientific laws. Paranormal are things beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.

Para as a prefix can mean “at or to one side of, beside, side by side” (parabola; paragraph; parallel; paralysis), “beyond, past, by” (paradox; paragogue).

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena such as extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis or telekinesis, and psychometry and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc.

Electronic Voice Phenomenon - Instrumental Trans Communication.

Psychic - Fortune-Telling - Hallucination - Possessed

"So you're a paranormal investigator, well I'm an abnormal investigator, and I believe that there is something very abnormal happening with you. But let me first confirm this and check my instruments. Oops my bad, it was me, sorry. Did that ever happen to you? Why is this room so cold all of a sudden, oh sorry, I left the window open, just another abnormality. Wait! Who opened that window? Freaking Ghosts!"...But all kidding aside....

Séance is an attempt to communicate with spirits. A meeting of people who are gathered to receive messages from ghosts or to listen to a spirit medium discourse with or relay messages from spirits. The word "séance" comes from the French word for "seat", "session" or "sitting".

Barnum Effect is the tendency to accept certain information as true, such as character assessments or horoscopes, even when the information is so vague as to be worthless. Bias.

Phantom is something apparently sensed but having no physical reality. Something existing in perception only. A ghostly appearing figure.

Supernatural includes all that cannot be explained by science or the laws of nature, including things characteristic of or relating to ghosts, gods, or other supernatural beings, or to things beyond nature.

Ghost an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image. Ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in spiritism as a séance. Other terms associated with it are apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith. Ghost can also mean a mental representation of some haunting experience. A ghost can also mean a faint false image formed in an optical or display device, e.g. by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Why Ghosts Don't Haunt Asians (youtube)

Apparition is a ghostly appearing figure. The appearance of a ghostlike figure. Something existing in perception only. An act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly.

Spirit Photography (youtube) - A man claimed he could photograph ghosts, and no one today can prove he couldn't. In the mid-1800s, the development of exciting new forms of communication, like photography and the telegraph, was considered miraculous. This technology also coincided with a new religious movement becoming popular in the US and Europe: spiritualism. Spiritualists believed that, through the use of a medium, contact with the dead was possible. During the bloody American Civil War (1861-1865), belief in Spiritualism grew. It was during this time that William Mumler, an amateur photographer in Boston, claimed he could photograph ghosts. He and his wife Hannah, herself a professional photographer and Spiritualist medium, created a stir in Boston by selling these "spirit portraits," and attracted the attention of Spiritualists and skeptics alike. Professional photographers in Boston investigated Mumler's method again and again but couldn't figure out how he did his trick. After accusations of fraud piled up in Boston, the Mumler’s relocated to New York City, the photographic capital of the US. Here, Mumler was quickly arrested on fraud charges, and his trial was sensationalized in New York newspapers. The prosecution even brought in circus showman P.T. Barnum to testify against Mumler. But, like the photographers in Boston, no one could confidently identify his method — and Mumler was acquitted. Once the trial was over, the Mumlers' spirit photography business boomed. They photographed prominent Americans, including Mary Todd Lincoln and William Lloyd Garrison, and even took mail-in orders from people who couldn't visit their studio in Boston. We visited photographic process historian Mark Osterman to demonstrate how Mumler could have used two negatives, printed simultaneously with a bit of sleight of hand, to fool witnesses into believing his "ghosts" were the real thing.

Paranormal - Supernatural Pseudoscientific

Life is Full of Surprises. The amazing thing is that we have no idea what happens when we die, people have beliefs, but beliefs do not explain everything. Death is our last great big surprise, with life being our first great big surprise.

Philosophy - After Life - Skepticism - Hallucinations

I don't die, but I as an individual don't live either, because there's no I, there's just us, and I'm just temporary. I love you, even knowing I'm gone and you're gone. So maybe we can be combined. Sharing is better than nothing. And there is that word 'nothing' again, what is nothing? Is nothing still something? I can live with that. I can't believe I said that. You know what I mean.

In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Corinthians 15 is the sure and certain expectation of the resurrection to a better life.

Resurrection of the Dead happens all the time. When we use knowledge and information from our descendants, we are in a fact keeping them alive. There will be no End Time, it will just be us finally understanding who we are. Life.

Posthumous is something occurring, awarded, or appearing after the death of the originator. Posthumously is after death. Memorial.

Soul - Spirit

Spirit is the vital principle or the animating force that is within all living things. Animation and energy in action or expression. Spirit can also mean a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character. The state of a person's emotions, especially with regard to pleasure or dejection. The intended meaning of a communication. An inclination or tendency of a certain kind. The general atmosphere of a place or situation, and the effect that it has on people. Spirit relates to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body. Something lacking material body or form or substance.

Consciousness - The Mind - Signals - Prayer

Soul is the immortal essence of a living being. Soul is the immaterial part of a person. The actuating cause of an individual life. Soul as a spirit is something incorporeal, or something without material form or substance.

Anima Mundi is an intrinsic connection between all living beings, which relates to the world in much the same way as the soul is connected to the human body.

The soul is separate from the body, including the bodies experiences, personality, memories and knowledge. The soul exists always, the body does not. So try not to hold on so tightly to your human form or body, it's not yours to keep, only to share and experience. Your true self has nothing to do with your body. The body is a vehicle in another dimension, and the origin of the soul is life's last surprise.

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion 1997 (youtube)

"Within the form is matter, above the form is spirit". - Lao Tzu

White Butterflies also symbolize past spirits/souls. I've come to believe they are signs of good luck or angels watching over you.

Transformative - Life Force - Dualism - Exorcism - Consciousness

Thetan is similar to the concept of self, or the spirit or soul as found in several belief systems.

Etheric Body is said to be in immediate contact with the physical body and to sustain it and connect it with "higher" bodies.

Ethereal is something believed to be of heaven or the spirit. Characterized by lightness as impalpable or intangible as air.

Corporeal - Abstract - Dimensions

Impalpable is something incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch. Imperceptible to the senses or the mind.

Discarnate is something having no physical body or form.

Astral Projection is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful out-of-body experience, a supposed form of telepathy, that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside of it throughout the universe.

Remote Viewing - Avatar - Transformation

Astral Body is an intermediate between the intelligent soul and the mental body, composed of a subtle material. Astral is resembling a star or emanating from stars.

Out-of-Body Experience is an experience that typically involves a feeling of floating outside one's body and, in some cases, the feeling of perceiving one's physical body as if from a place outside one's body.

Near Death Experience - Empathy - Consciousness - Half Asleep

Soul Flight is a technique of ecstasy used by shamans with the aim of entering into a state of trance. During such ecstatic trance it is believed that the shaman's soul has left the body and the corporeal world, which allows him or her to enter a spiritual world and interact with inhabitants who occupy this other dimension.

Autoscopy is the experience in which an individual perceives the surrounding environment from a different perspective, from a position outside of their own body. Overview Effect.

Disembodied is not having a material body or free from a body or physical form or reality.

Illusory Body is the clear light that is experienced briefly by all human beings at the very first moment of death.

Body of Light is an aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, 'astral body' or the 'subtle body,' is a "quasi material".

Energy Being is an alleged life form that is composed of energy rather than matter. Angel.

Luminous Mind is a brightly shining mind or a mind of clear light.

Floating Man or flying man, or the man suspended in air argument, is a thought experiment by the Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (Avicenna) which argues for the existence of the soul. This thought experiment is used to argue in favor of knowledge by presence.

Virtual Reality - Overview Effect

Embodied is possessing or existing in bodily form or represent in bodily form or express something abstract in tangible form.

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. Turing Test - Consciousness.

Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words—as animated and alive. Animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of many indigenous peoples, especially in contrast to the relatively more recent development of organized religions.

Personification is something representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas.

Persona is an actor's portrayal of someone in a play. Persona in psychology is a personal facade that one presents to the world.

Effigy is a representation of a person, sometimes in the form of sculpture. Effigy is an often life-size sculptural representation of a specific person, or a prototypical figure.

Avatar is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means "descent". It signifies the material appearance or incarnation of a deity on Earth. The relative verb to "alight, to make one's appearance" is sometimes used to refer to any guru or revered human being.

Animation is the state of being full of life or vigor. Having liveliness. Animation can also mean the technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence.

Incarnate is to make concrete and real and represent in bodily form.

Manifest - Sculptures - AI Robost

Incarnation is a new personification of a familiar idea. Time passed in a particular bodily form. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. Incarnation is the belief that the pre-existent divine person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, and the eternally begotten Logos (Koine Greek for "word"), took upon human nature and "was made flesh".

Reincarnation is embodiment in a new form or a second or new birth. Reincarnation is when a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

Reboot - Past Life Regression - Déjà vu - Intuition - Living Forever - Heaven

Rebirth is a belief that after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body.

Rebirth in Buddhism is when the actions of a person leads to a new existence after death, in endless cycles called samsara. This cycle is considered to be dukkha, unsatisfactory and painful. The cycle stops only if liberation is achieved by insight and the extinguishing of desire. Rebirth is one of the foundational doctrines of Buddhism, along with Karma, nirvana and moksha.

Do you have to be born physically first before you can be reborn mentally?"

Mindstream is continuing from one life to another, or the moment-to-moment continuum. A continuity of the personality in the absence of a permanently abiding "self". The continuity from one life to another. The transformations that are transmitted from one life to the next. Stream-Enterer.

Posthumous is something occurring or coming into existence after a person's death.

Resurrection is the rising from the dead of a divine or human being who still retains his own personhood, or individuality, though the body may or may not be changed.

Dying and Rising Deity is a religious motif in which a god or goddess dies and is resurrected. Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which involves the same person or deity coming back to live in a different body, rather than the same one.

Born Again is to experience the new birth or spiritual rebirth, or a regeneration of the human spirit from the Holy Spirit, contrasted with physical birth.

Afterlife - Heaven - Paranormal - Psychic

Eternal Return is a theory that the universe and all existence and energy has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.

Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means "wandering" or "world", with the connotation of cyclic, circuitous change. It also refers to the theory of rebirth and "cyclicality of all life, matter, existence", a fundamental assumption of all Indian religions.

Noble Eightfold Path is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth.

Maybe after death there is no self, no I, no me and no you. Only the essence of your true self. Once the body dies "you" no longer exist. Only the true essence of what was you at one time. So you are probably wondering what is your essence?

Trinity defines God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost, co-existing in three coequal and coeternal persons, or three distinct persons sharing one homoousion essence. The father, the son and the holy spirit. Trinity is three people considered as a unit. In this context, the three persons define who God is, while the one essence defines what God is. Another way to interpret the trinity can be expressed by seeing God, the universe or the environment as being the first level of existence. Then the human form or the human body being the second level of existence. Then the spirit, the soul or the mind and consciousness being the third level of existence. All 3 ways of existence working together and combined into one incredible existence, named the trinity. Trinity in math is the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one. Trio or Triad is the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one. A musical composition for three performers or singers who perform together.

Triple is a set of three similar things considered as a unit. Something having three units, three components or three elements.

Trifold is having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities. Three times as great or many. By a factor of three. Triangle.

Trefoil Knot is the simplest example of a nontrivial knot. The trefoil can be obtained by joining together the two loose ends of a common overhand knot, resulting in a knotted loop. As the simplest knot, the trefoil is fundamental to the study of mathematical Knot theory.

Trilogy is a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme. A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. Three-part works that are considered components of a larger work also exist, such as the triptych or the three-movement sonata, but they are not commonly referred to with the term "trilogy". Circle of Life.

Treble is the third and highest range. The treble control is used in sound reproduction to change the volume of treble notes relative to those of the middle and bass frequency ranges. Triad is a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones.

Trifecta is selecting in the correct order the first three finishers in a race. A bettor must predict who will finish first, second, and third, in the exact order.

Grace of Three Sisters - Embryo - Trinity Nuclear Test - Triangulation in Navigation

Borromean Rings are three simple closed curves in three-dimensional space that are topologically linked and cannot be separated from each other, but that break apart into two unknotted and unlinked loops when any one of the three is cut or removed. Most commonly, these rings are drawn as three circles in the plane, in the pattern of a Venn diagram, alternatingly crossing over and under each other at the points where they cross. Other triples of curves are said to form the Borromean rings as long as they are topologically equivalent to the curves depicted in this drawing. Ring of Life - Cycles.

Angel is a spiritual being superior to humans in power and intelligence. Angels are typically described as benevolent, dreadful, and endowed with wisdom and knowledge of earthly events, but not infallible; for they strive with each other, and God has to make peace between them. Most of them serve either as intermediaries between Heaven and Earth, or as guardian spirits.

Guardian Angel - Angel Numbers - Ghosts

Cherub is an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge, usually portrayed as a winged child. A sweet innocent baby.

Watcher are angels dispatched to Earth to watch over the humans.

Jiva is a living being, or any entity imbued with a life force.

Spiritual (praying) - Spiritual Leaders - Thought Leader

Transpersonal is the state or area of consciousness beyond the limits of personal identity. Transpersonal is a term used by different schools of philosophy and psychology in order to describe experiences and worldviews that extend beyond the personal level of the psyche, and beyond mundane worldly events.

One Step Beyond" Equivalent: A Message from Charity (youtube) - The second segment of the sixth episode of the first season (1985–86) from the television series The Twilight Zone. In this segment, a pair of teenagers - one from 1700, and one from 1985 - share a mental link across time. James Cromwell: Obadiah Payne.

Intuition - Clairvoyance - Insight

Spirit Possession is an unusual or altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors purportedly caused by the control of a human body by spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods. spirit possession beliefs were found to exist in 74% of a sample of 488 societies in all parts of the world, with the highest numbers of believing societies in Pacific cultures and the lowest incidence among Native Americans of both North and South America.

The Bride Possessed - On her honeymoon a bride  is possessed by a murdered woman, who reveals her murderer and the murder weapon. One Step Beyond - Season 1 Episode 1 (youtube)

Past Life Regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations. "I believe that the reason why we don't remember past lives is so that life feels like it's the very first time. You start life over fresh, and you experience life as if it were the very first time that you were ever alive. This is most likely by design, because it just makes sense." History - Genetic Memory.

The Great Forgetting. Each night while you sleep, the connections between neurons called synapses shrink to reduce or eliminate the memories you don't need. Sleep—including REM sleep—may be a time when the brain actively forgets excess information to prevent overload. This idea is supported by recent studies in mice showing that, during sleep, the brain trims away connections between neurons involved in certain types of learning.

Body Swap is a storytelling device seen in a variety of science and supernatural fiction, in which two people (or beings) exchange minds and end up in each other's bodies. In media such as television and film, the device is an opportunity for two actors to temporarily play each other's characters, although in some cases, dialogue is dubbed by the original actors. Fallen is a 1998 American supernatural thriller film (wiki).

Mind Uploading is a use of a computer or another substrate as an emulated human brain. The term "mind transfer" also refers to a hypothetical transfer of a mind from one biological brain to another. Uploaded minds and societies of minds, often in simulated realities, are recurring themes in science-fiction novels and films since the 1950s.

Brain Transplant is a procedure in which the brain of one organism is transplanted into the body of another organism.

Autoscopy is the experience in which an individual perceives the surrounding environment from a different perspective, from a position outside of his or her own body.

Mediumship is the practice of certain people —known as mediums— to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings. There are different types of mediumship including spirit channeling, and ouija.

Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.

Animatism is a belief in a generalized, impersonal power over which people have some measure of control.

Abstract is something existing only in the mind and separated from embodiment. Not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature. A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance. Consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically.

Religion

"The essential quality of the infinite, by contrast, is its subtlety, its intangibility. This quality is conveyed in the word spirit, whose root meaning is “wind, or breath.” This suggests an invisible but pervasive energy, to which the manifest world of the finite responds." David Bohm (wiki).

To Have a Good Soul means having admirable, pleasing, superior, or positive qualities. It's being morally excellent and being a good person who is rational, virtuous and righteous. A good soul is someone who respects other people and is helpful to others despite knowing that the world. Human Nature.

A Beautiful Soul is someone with a kind and giving nature. Someone who is confident, genuine, balanced, and understanding. People with beautiful souls make others feel safe and at peace.

Soulfulness is having deep feeling or emotion. The experiencing of affective and emotional states.

Soulmate is a person with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity. This may involve similarity, love, romance, platonic relationships, comfort, intimacy, sexuality, sexual activity, spirituality, compatibility and trust.

Kindred Spirits are two people that make a special connection by sharing a bond that has joined them by the means of an experience that has drawn them together on a higher level of consciousness. This connection can be from the same experience at the same time or two separate experiences similar in nature. Psychic Link.

Twin Flame is when two souls are split in two, or two people are mirror images of each other. This results in an instant connection when twin flames meet. A twin flame isn't necessarily a romantic relationship or "the one", but they will always change your life, often from the very first time you cross paths. The twin flame is two halves of the same soul, and soul mates are two souls that belong together.

Angels - Doppelganger - Imitation

Free Spirit is a person who is independent or uninhibited . A person who thinks and acts in an nonconformist or unconventional way without worrying about normal social rules or traditional society structures. Extroverted.

To Be Soulless describes a person who is thought to have no soul or no greatness or no warmth of mind or feeling. To be heartless. People who don't have a soul are usually incapable of feeling emotions or having ambitions. Their sense of self is clouded, deluded, and warped. It means that you are not connected to your heart. You are shallow with no dimension. There is no one “home”. Love does not radiate from you. To be soulless means that you lack human qualities and the ability to feel or produce deep feelings, like a psychopath.

Soul Food is an ethnic cuisine traditionally prepared and eaten by African Americans, originating in the Southern United States. The cuisine originated with the foods that were given to enslaved black people by their white owners on Southern plantations during the Antebellum period; however, it was strongly influenced by the traditional practices of West Africans and Native Americans from its inception. Due to the historical presence of African Americans in the region, soul food is closely associated with the cuisine of the American South although today it has become an easily identifiable and celebrated aspect of mainstream American food culture. The expression "soul food" originated in the mid-1960s, when "soul" was a common word used to describe African-American culture

Soul Music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz. Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music of Africa. A soul singer is a musician whose performance is characterized by soul.

Soul Man is a 1967 song written and composed by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. It's a story about one's struggle to rise above their present conditions. The Blues Brothers (wiki).

Essence

Essence is the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. Any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted.  Essence (wiki).

Quintessence is the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class or the representative of a type. The purest and most concentrated essence of something. The aspect of something regarded as the intrinsic and central constituent of its character. A refined essence or extract of a substance.

Essence can be understood as a belief that there is always some information present, even though you cannot fully see it, it is thought to be in existence, something like your soul. Essence is the properties perceived to be important, properties that are sometimes not calculated in a consensus of logical knowledge. This is not to say that everything has to be confirmed, it just makes some decisions easier to make. Essence is another broad word that when you try to define it, it becomes a conversation about many other words that also need to be defined. So the word is just another way of saying, "Do you have time for a conversation about the meaning of the word essence and how the meaning of the word changes when used in different sentences?" So essence can be defined as long as you are willing to define it, and as long as other people agree to that definition and how it's used in a particular sentence.

"Dreams can be so amazing, but never more amazing than what life is like when you're fully awake, even the edges are beautiful." - (Howard Polley)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come". - (Shakespeares Julius Caesar Act II, Scene II).

"One thing is for certain, you will die in your Lifetime. And I have this feeling that it will be something wonderful."

What if you died, and you were given a chance to go back and speak to everyone who was a part of your life, what would you like to say to everyone? Well, I'm not going to wait till I'm dead, I'm speaking now while I still have a chance. Eulogy.

Speak Now or Forever hold your Peace? No such thing as "forever", and peace is debatable. Speak if you feel that something needs to be said. But make sure that what you're saying is not an opinion, or say something that you believe is the truth, because the truth is also debatable. You're better off making an unbiased observation that brings light to an important subject. And the time and place that you choose to share your words needs to be considered. When something is not forever, like marriage, then waiting after the ceremony may be a better time to express your concern, depending on what country you're from, of course.

Living Forever

Almost Everyone wants to Live Forever. Living forever is a very popular dream. Humans can live forever, as long as we don't think that forever means one lifetime. Life is a cycle. And if we want to keep the cycle going, we have to learn the responsibilities of living forever. Everyone is a caregiver of life. But we still have a lot to learn. So we must take learning seriously, because forever is a very very long time, and life should be a good time, and not a waste of time.

Immortal is something that does not die, like the soul.

Amrita is a Sanskrit word that means "immortality".

Eternity - Eternal - Reincarnation - Cycles

No one really wants to live forever. Humans like change, humans like variety, humans like new beginnings, humans like starting over and trying something new. Living forever would suck, especially if you're not learning anything new, which would make life horribly monotonous. Besides that, we don't want scumbags living forever, because that would totally suck, like it does now with some people being in power for way too long. The only time a person could benefit from a long life is when they are improving life for other people and continually learning and progressing. No point on living a long life if all you do is take more than you give, and eventually kill everything around you, like some people are doing now. Living a long life should be an honor, but for too many people, a long life could be a curse.

Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen (youtube) - Highlander (1996 film) - Long Live Walter Jameson" is episode 24 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Humans are Made of Atoms. A proton will last 10 to 32 power years. An electron will last 6.6 x 10 to 28 power years. The universe will continue for 13.8 x 10 to 9 power years.

You die but human life does not die. Human life was here before you were born and human life will be here after you die, which means that you could have another life.

To say that only the good die young is wrong. If that were true, then every old person would be an as*hole, which isn't true because there are a lot of really nice old people. This is not to that there are no old people who are as*holes, because sadly there is plenty of elderly as*holes around, there usually called politicians, or just plain ignorant. Their ignorance is mostly from failing to learn and neglecting to keep educating themselves. Good people do die old. It's just that being good is not good enough. You have to be good at it. So what ever positive thing that you choose to do in your life, be good at it and not just be a good person. Be good at what you do, and not just being good at being nice, but also good at making nice things happen, things that are meaningful and long-lasting. Let the Good die old. So let us change the song to only the good die old, and let the as*holes die young. And when good people die young, we remind the assholes how privileged they are and that they should try to be more grateful that people allow them to live.

"One of the major problems that people have is that they only see life based on their own personal single lifespan, that's all they see, which is this single moment in time. People don't see the past or the future they way they should. People should be aware that other lifespans came before them so that they can be here in this moment in time, and that future lifespans will either live or die depending on how people today live their life."

If you can't let go then you can't start over. And I would rather start over then to be a ghost. Trying to selfishly hold on to your cherished memories is normal and totally understandable, and we don't want to lose everything that we have learned and experienced. But who said we have to. We can write it all down and read about it in our next life, like we have done with our stories. When you can let go of the self, then you can live forever, and experience many lives to their fullest.

There's a story behind every action. Sometimes it's a short story and sometimes it's a long story. A story about a wrong turn or a combination of a few bad decisions, followed by those good decisions you made and what they meant to you....Tell Your Story.