is a light from the sun, although they share walls, mountains and a thousand other things, and one common entity, although it is distributed to thousands of bodies with their respective attributes. And a soul, though divided into a thousand individuals with their respective characteristics. And a spiritual soul, although it apparently seems to be separated.
Marcus
The Diaries of stars "- one of the best and for me the most inspiring books by Stanislaw Lem - the main character - Ijon Tichy - goes to a planet where all of his body shall be thoroughly scanned, so that will be remembered location and movement each atom (scratch that, that physics says that something like this even in theory can not be done) to death, it could be rebuilt. Of course, the question hangs in the air, and after that would be rebuilt, it was still the same Ijon Tichy, or just the same as the person he is. Reading the "Journals" in the last year of primary school, I concluded that it is only reasonable to assume, however, that this would be the same man. This riddle however involve a number of further questions. Lem puts some of them, moreover, in a later chapter. For example, if the soul (understood as in my post of September 12) may be the multiplication - or self and identity can be replicated? And again, I thought that nothing (except for deceiving us intuitively) does not preclude the possibility that such a permit. After playing a few Ijonów Tichych there would also be a few copies of his soul. Further reasoning has already been driving without a hint of Lem. Since the self and identity can be multiplication, this is what happens when certain items will not be a perfect copy, but for example we create a hybrid Ijon and someone else? I decided that if the particle identity is lost, however, the deepest self, and (most important) components soul will be saved. Going this way, I thought that all people are in a deep sense of one and the same man. That their self and the core of their soul is not just the same, but quite common. This also meant that I discovered immortality. Because even if I die, my self and my humanity will continue to run in the billions of people living on Earth.
discovery was one of the intellectual achievements of my primary school period, of which I was most proud of. It was for such an enjoyable that I wanted to share it with all individuals encountered. Beyond the immediate family but have not met with understanding. Colleagues atheists do not understand what I mean, a believer that what I say is not Christian. Me and bursting with joy and a sense of the obviousness of the same as the understanding of the evidence that the height of the triangle intersect at one point.
I also noted then that component is immortal in us more. Our genes are immortal, which - even if they do not have children - that they are sustained by them paid, but who pass them on. Ongoing cultural values \u200b\u200bthat are successfully transmitted between people (despite some regrettable psychopaths who are trying to discredit them - for example by referring to them as mempleksów or viruses of the mind).
When many years later I became interested in religions (Eastern and ancient), I learned that Buddhism and Hinduism probably say the same thing, what in the last years of his childhood came, as the reincarnation of the true Brahmin and Buddhist sages was treated metaphorically. Tales of almost karma and subsequent incarnations were instructive and morality tale, which was closer to the simple truth that we are really one and the same man.
This belief was also the core of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, and if you believe the author of the essay "Christianity as a mystical reality of the mysteries of ancient times" it was It is also the essence and the Eleusinian mysteries orfickich and esoteric content of ancient Christianity. Because really, if the texts Steiner grate pseudometafizyczny settlements remain content that can be summarized in one sentence - "all men are one and the same man."
Whether Steiner in his interpretations of ancient mysteries was right, everything seems to indicate that the wisdom of which I write here has been masked somewhat in the form of a component of most pagan beliefs. Mircea Eliade, the "Myth of the Eternal Return" describes the ratio of the ancient pagans to life after death:
"... The transformation of the deceased the 'ancestor' to match the unit is in the category of archetypal. In many traditions (for example, in Greece) ordinary souls of the dead are no longer 'memory' - they are, what we might call the historical individuality. The transformation of the dead larvae, etc. is in some sense to adopt them back to the impersonal archetype 'ancestor'. The fact that in the tradition of the Greek heroes just keep following the death of personality (ie, the memory of himself), can be easily understood: having done in his earthly life only the best works , the hero retains the memory of this because from a certain point of view, these works were impersonal.
Apart from the concept of transformation of the dead in the 'ancestors', and considering the fact of death for the conclusion 'history' bodies, it seems quite natural that the memory of a post mortem of this 'story' is limited, or - in other words - the memory of the passions, events, anything that involves with the right individual, at the time of death ceases to exist. "
This attitude of the ancient heathen can only be understood considering that he had a feeling of indestructibility, the core of that soul, but he knew that what is individual really disintegrates.
And, indeed, is confirmed by three beautiful Hellenic myths - one of Demetrze and Persephone, and the two myths of Orpheus. The myth of Persephone (everyone remember him) teaches us about the relationship between our immortality, and the continual rebirth of nature. Persephone returns each spring - those who went back in every birth. The first myth orfickich, that the journey to Hades to get away from there Euridice shows why we can not understand that death is an illusion: we must be "history", being tied to specific, well-known shapes reality. Attachment which makes it impossible to see what is eternal, Orpheus looked back, what is missing has taken his attempt to rescue his beloved. The second myth is about orfickich death of the Prophet, about how his body is torn a thousand pieces, each of which is still vibrant. This myth is an indication that after death we lose a particular identity, that we are everywhere and nowhere, in thousands of places in the millions, billions of people.
recently wondered whether there are such interpretations of Christianity, which would give the reconciled with the understanding of eternal life, of which I speak here. I'm not talking about Steiner, but something closer to orthodoxy. Empty tomb unless thwarted, however, "the road to Emmaus" and recognize Jesus after the breaking of the bread may be a clue that this is possible. The same is probably also the confession of St. Paul's letter to the Galatians: " It is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me ", which may suggest that, and intended to eternal life is what ponadindywidualne - Christ, not Paul . In the same direction unless it leads Jesus' words "I am the vine guilty, and you are the branches ". Either these so moving, uttered on the cross: " Woman, behold your son ... ".
now turn to the most important questions. Is this a vision of immortality can be comforting? Some seven years ago I felt a rebellion against the reality - that is who I am as an individual must be destroyed seemed to me inexpressibly sad, even tragic. In the life after death, as a continuation of earthly life, I could not believe it (even though I felt a Christian). Think about that my memories, experiences related to places and people that I knew, disappear as if they had never been wpędzała me in a state of despair. Apparently Stefan Kisielewski, when after the death of his wife heard from a Catholic theologian that "we will be saved individually as the" completely broke down. Then I understood him well. I understood it, Herbert, who in his brilliant poem U gate of the valley, "compared " throat of the valley "filled with waiting for entry to paradise the souls of the Auschwitz ramp. Because if we can be happy with eternity without it everything ukochaliśmy? And then much closer to Steiner seemed to me the interpretation of ancient mysteries as stated by Professor Tadeusz Zielinski, who desires immortality sources interpret it as a longing for those whom we love and who have departed.
passed some years, and my rebellion probably get fired. I also found solace in line with the philosophy of which I wrote here. Immortality, "in other people" in fact gives us some relief in the form of forgetfulness - none of those who are born after us, will not recognize the "scraps of letters, ribbons, hair censored ", which hid in our drawers.
Here I feel that I must once again bow to the Greeks, with their beautiful myth of the waters of Lethe, which are bound for Hades gave oblivion. Another
found consolation in the recent discovery that our whole life is a constant dying (I made this discovery while watching some old photographs of a slim dark-haired, about which I know I wore my first and last name).
Still another, is that the scientific concept of providing an infinite universe, and life expectancy (based on the DNA) appear to be - in the light recent discoveries - become more likely.
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