Originally Posted by
ENT
Once the human body has died, of course human consciousness ceases to exist.
After you're dead you're no longer a human being.
So what is that "you",.... that awareness?
Does awareness cease? Is awareness the prerogative only of living beings?
Are rocks and plants aware? Is energy aware, cognizant of other energies, like drops of water are?
Or is everything simply a mechanical function of electrons and ions banging against each other, nothing much more than electrical discharges and pulses performing in seeming patterns throughout the universe?
If so, the brain's electrical energy, has infinite life potential as part of a continuum of electrical activity throughout the universe.
Our life force, electricity, simply moves on into another pattern of activity once it's released from our bodies, and death as we know it only a stage in the process of life's electrical continuum, which started way before our birth or conception, before any kind of individuation formed, followed by the sense of self, the ego.
We're more than just the sum of our parts.