tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848491628396529552.post2429526140672206901..comments2023-07-17T02:33:39.109-07:00Comments on The Lion of the Left Speaks: Nano NanoLion of the Lefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452320468745423207noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848491628396529552.post-8663925494102630002010-01-09T17:22:34.853-08:002010-01-09T17:22:34.853-08:00I have spent a great deal of my life reading and w...I have spent a great deal of my life reading and writing in my personal journal about death - since it is such a major event in my life and those I have loved. I find it often odd how many people I have met in my life - don't seem as pre-occupied with the very idea of death as I have been. So it is interesting Bernie seeing that perhaps you are one soul who thinks about it in your life - as I have - and even admits like I do that you are indeed scared of it.<br /><br />An acquaintance I knew in Santa Cruz, CA for about a year - who was a local film critic and poet, just died recently. His attitude toward death was summed up in a statement he made just before his death:<br /><br />"The whole experience of life and death is just absurd. This is a universe that keeps rolling along and killing everything in it's path, and we try to make sense of it. It's ridiculous."<br /><br />Morton - quite a smart man, having been a writing professor at the local community college and later an established well known man about town in Santa Cruz - clearly was a pessimist about death - and believed it was absurd and made life absurd as well.<br /><br />I would agree with him myself if death really is the end, and if what we call ourselves and our identity is entirely dependent on the material bodies we are - and we have no souls.<br /><br />I think many people these days do fear there is no soul - and it is sad because if there is one thing religion has been able to provide to humans throughout the centuries - it was the belief that there is a part of us that does exist independent of the body.<br /><br />Lately I have been reading many accounts of NDE's people reports (Near Death Experiences). It has given me some hope of late. This site you might find of interest, is a compilation of several thousand NDE reports:<br /><br />http://www.nderf.org/NDERF_NDEs.htm<br /><br />These accounts along with the study of men like Michael Absalom or even Frederic Myers makes me think there is indeed reason to hope there is some other reality outside of the physical one we are in now.<br /><br />And from all accounts that you will read in this NDE archive - this "other" reality is more like home to us, we are are alive and aware, and there is a great deal of relief and love. And physical reality is actually a place of learning and boundaries.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />John AmentaDante Edmundohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928266437386274099noreply@blogger.com