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Death is fundamental to
human being and in cosmology…
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On death
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As a result of the
scientific world view and the advent of secular humanism one dominant modern
Normal view of death is that it is absolute: individual consciousness begins
with birth and ends with death
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The Metaphysics shows,
however, the merging of individual identities in Identity. Thus the Normal
view of death is a relative one
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In life, this world is,
roughly, finite; in life, the Universe may be experienced as infinite
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In death, therefore, it is
as if the infinity of the Universes collapses to the individual;
alternatively, in death the ‘finite’ individual becomes the infinity of the
Universe
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...which from the theory developed for Identity—ultimately from
the fundamental principle—has literal truth
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A goal of the journey is to
attempt to realize this truth regarding death in this life
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As a result of the scientific world view and the advent of secular humanism one dominant modern Normal view of death is that it is absolute: individual consciousness begins with birth and ends with death