There were cases of death-related patients who had already been abandoned by the doctors but returned to life. Their experiences, such as walking through a narrow channel or tunnel, have filled books. The doctors explain such "last" pictures with the lack of oxygen in the brain. Religious people see such experiences as an indication of life after death. There may be cases of trance in which people put themselves in such a subjectively believed state of an extraterrestrial life. But scientific evidence cannot be expected from narrations that are outside human life. The need for religion is almost the answer to the dilemma that man cannot know where he comes from and whether there is another life after death, but he is happy to have a firm belief in such an extraterrestrial world that gives his life security.
Because man is the only being who has insight (i.e. conscious perception) into his own existence, he is also the only being who knows religion. It originates from the insight into one's own imperfection - despite all intelligence. Therefore, the belief in a being who does not know all these weaknesses and imperfections that man recognizes in himself, is necessary. Divine beings usually - not always - have qualities of perfection. To make excursions of thought into such spheres of perfection, that is, to advance from temporality into timeless perfection and to worship and communicate with a perfect superhuman being, is a major field of religious practice.
There was a recent claim in LifeScience that quantum physics allows for the reversal of cause and effect, thereby a possible time machine at some point in the future.
As I work also as an historian I know the past like the back of my hand, so now I'd like to get acquainted with the front of my hand instead-and know the future just as well.
Well I would say some probability theory is required to go to future. Past is fixed, it has occurred already. So going 1 hour back or 1 hour forward in time are not the same things.
The already existing time machines in the SF literature are enough for me. The two most famous are sad dystopias concerning the future of mankind:
1/ H:G. Wells' Time Machine (1895) is an impressive critique of English class society (Wells was a socialist) and belongs to world literature.
2/ "Idaho Transfer" is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Peter Fonda. After the great catastrophe the last remaining ones are depicted as demented beings, hunted by some other people to feed the remaining cars with "fuel" (energy).
My question is if you have configured the time machine to take you after you die where would you land?
I really think time machine is the man himself. And where he was before birth and where he will go after death has long been known. It's reincarnation. And the film "Quantum leap" shows how with the help of a time machine, you can survive several reincarnations in one life. To do this, the Soul must temporarily move to other bodies.
1/ All statements concerning a life before procreation and a life after death cannot be answered by empirical science.
2/ If one takes a closer look at the myths of mankind, which revolve around these questions, then there is only one judgement of astonishment that the variety of speculations is enormous - of course also the answers of the religions. There are religions associated with belief in rebirth, there are religions with millions of followers who know no God (but "fate"), etc. Here one will not find objective truths, but different beliefs of the religious faith. Some religions know a "hell" - others don't.
3/ One can nevertheless try to make a rational statement. If three living beings die in the same space at the same time - a human being, a dog, a fly - then the same thing happens to these three living beings, as happens to all living beings in such case: the life processes - the exchange of energy, the ability to react to stimuli - come to an end and processes of decay begin.
4/ Of course there are people who want to have their dog with them in heaven after their death (if they believe in such a fate). Such a belief is not rare.
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Anyone who takes this fact seriously that life has a natural end can only be happy. For he no longer notices anything of these processes that begin after death - and, as I said, that are degradation processes of life. One can imagine an "eternal" life as rather boring, while a temporary life can be exciting, wonderful, but also very cruel.
For those whose lives consisted only of suffering and torment do not receive retroactive justice. "Time" can be slowed down or accelerated in the space-time continuum, but not "turned back". Nor has anyone claimed that divine instances can do this. Only the human imagination makes it possible.
@Hein Retter Atleast the ones with near death experiences know something better than what I do in terms of life after death. We see spirits in semi conscious state of mind in rem sleep. Reincarnation is written in bhagavad Gita which is unproven. One thing that I feel personally is we all know everything. Only when we lose our peace of mind wisdom flows through our mind. I say it is knowledge of the universe which I already had gets recollected. Seems I am from some other time. Maybe from 16th century. For me loss of memory is also time travel, unproven again.
I'm a Bhuddist, so supposed to believe in reincarnation. For sure we reincarnate at a molecular level because nothing escapes from Earth. But when I was kid, I was hypnotizing my school mates. We invested the science classroom and all of them (including Catholics and Muslims) wanted to know about their past lives. They were really asleep and the idea was that I took them before death and they begun to speak of their past life as if they were living it, sometimes with a very changed voice. Soon, all the school wanted to assist. But the strange thing was in past lives, they were all princes, countesses and artists.
by fixing them in the eyes and speaking slowly on a low tone voice. Then, you get to a sleeping plancher where you can speak normally. But I stopped it: the girl told me she wanted to go back to the moment of her birth and when we came to that moment, she entered in convulsions. I was so scared, because I instantly realized what could be the damages but I managed to cool her down with that low-tone voice. When she woke up, she didn't remember a thing, as everybody. She finished the year normally but I ceased hypnosis, I didn't want to hurt anybody.
No travelling before birth after death. Unless it is African magic
What everyone calls objective is only perceived as objective. The fact that all are called subjective only understood as subjective. All facts are empirical. All empirical facts are facts of consciousness. For consciousness there is no difference between the facts of consciousness, wherever their source may be. The objective and the subjective are all facts of consciousness. This applies to this life, past and future. This applies to all non-life
I think it's good that science has to be limited to what can actually be proven, but that man always has the possibility in his world of thought to disregard this narrow boundary and make experiences that lie beyond "provability" - no matter whether it is about reincarnation or the idea of deification of the dead (the latter is part of Japanese Shintoism). But there are also purely secular religions, to which one can also count the NIchi Ren - Bhuddism. So we should see it positively, if man has powers, which science can collect and arrange in the mirror of the statements of those concerned, but does not have the possibility to "explain" them - although they have high value for human beings and their inner balances.
When you need to prove spirituality or the supernatural through equations you are the natural scientist. Cause life becomes difficult for you from the day you wish to do what is right.
it is fantasy. But, I happened to watch a show, where a Scientist once declared just like the escape velocity of any object (goes directly to the space), if a human can travel faster than the human quantified time (several million times faster, I don't remember the calculation though), you can go to the future. However, would a human be able to take up that speed and its impact. It still remains a fantasy.
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