What will life be like after Ascension? Will the myth of “death” finally be laid to rest? (Pun intended.) I’d love to know what my dad has been up to. He died 35 years ago. Perhaps you ask some of the same questions — insert the names of your own deceased loved ones. What new worlds — universes — did they step into?
I’ve had two conscious death experiences — both 15 years ago. In the first, I felt what it was like to let go my physical body and become universal consciousness, completely unencumbered. One moment I was “here”, the next moment I was “there” but the “there” was as real as my “here” but a different world. It was like I woke up in a new picture. Continuous, seamless, pleasant, natural. I wasn’t shocked or surprised. I remembered feeling fantastic.
The second experience took place a few months later. I was in a car accident. I was fully conscious through the slow motion experience. Lord Yama (the Lord of Death) appeared next to me. He said, “It’s your time.” I replied, “Will my family be taken care of?” He nodded “yes.” I said, “Then, yes, I’m ready.” I took my hands off the steering wheel and shielded my face. The windshield exploded into the car, the car flipped over three times, then landed upright, straddled across the road. The driver’s door was the only one that could open.
Long story short, I walked out of the car — with only a scratch on my knuckle and pieces of glass in my hair — to see an astonished policewoman, ashen-faced, running toward me. (She had seen the car flip.) I was calm and serene. I was “me” on the outside but the same yet “different” me on the inside. Something mysterious happened during the crash and I believe it had to do with “timelines.” I still haven’t quite figured it out.
And three years ago, while fully conscious and discussing arrangements for a cataract surgery for my mother, I spontaneously found myself “conscious” in two other parallels — all at the same time while speaking in this one, to the nurse. As odd and unbelievable as it may sound, I was in THIS world and, at the same time, was in two other and different bodies (but the same “me”), talking and interacting with other people, in two other different worlds. (I’ll leave that experience to another article.) In short, the three parallels — or multiverses — intersected for about four hours.
Perhaps this article can serve as a discussion starter with family and friends. Multiverses? “Yes, Dr. Lanza, I’ve been there.” I suspect many of you have been there, too. –Pat
What Is It Like After You Die?
by Robert Lanza, MD, The Huffington Post
7/27/2011
The question, “What is it like after you die?” can make you wonder about taking the time to ponder such philosophical babble. You might reply, “The only way to know is when you die.” Not so. You won’t know any more than you do now. Increasingly, scientists are beginning to realize that an infinite number of realities may exist outside our old classical way of thinking.
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals. This came into focus the other day as I strolled though a nearby field, stirring up butterflies and creatures of all shapes and colors. There were wildflowers that were brilliant yellow, some that were red and others that were iridescent purple. This colorful world of up-and-down was the extent of my reality. Of course, to a mouse or a dog, that world of reds, greens and blues didn’t exist anymore than the ultraviolet and infrared world (experienced by bees and snakes) did for me. In fact, some animals, including birds, possess magnetoreceptors that allow them to perceive information on the quantum level (indeed, some have even speculated that bees perceive a 6-dimensional reality to encode location information).
But regardless of these differences, we genome-based creatures all share a common biological (spatio-temporal) information-processing ability. I’ve previously written how reality isn’t a hard, cold thing, but rather an active process that involves our consciousness. According to biocentrism, space and time are simply the tools our mind uses to weave information together into a coherent experience — they are the language of consciousness (in fact, in dreams your mind uses the same algorithms to create a spatio-temporal reality that is as real, 3-D and flesh-and-blood as the one you’re experiencing now). “It will remain remarkable,” said Nobel physicist Eugene Wigner, referring to a long list of scientific experiments, “that the very study of the external world led to the conclusion that the content of the consciousness is an ultimate reality.”
At death there’s a break in our linear stream of consciousness, and thus a break in the linear connection of times and places. Indeed, biocentrism suggests it’s a manifold that leads to all physical possibilities. More and more physicists are beginning to accept the “many-worlds” interpretation of quantum physics, which states that there are an infinite number of universes. Everything that can possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death doesn’t exist in these scenarios, since all of them exist simultaneously regardless of what happens in any of them. The “me” feeling is just energy operating in the brain. But energy never dies; it cannot be destroyed.
So what’s it like when you die? Of course, during our lives we all grow attached to the people we know and love and can never image a time without them. I subscribe to Netflix and recently went through all nine seasons of the TV series “Smallville.” I watched two or three episodes every night, day after day, for months. I watched Clark Kent (Tom Welling) grow up and go through all the normal growing pains of adolescence, young love and family dramas. He, Martha Kent (his adoptive mother) and all the other characters became part of my life. Night after night I watched him use his emerging superpowers to fight crime as he matured, first attending high school and then college. I watched him fall in love with Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk), and then become enemies with his former friend Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum). When I finished the last disk, it was like they had all died — it was all over.
Despite my sense of loss, I reluctantly tried a few other TV series, eventually stumbling upon “Grey’s Anatomy.” The cycle started over again with completely different people. By the time I had finished all seven seasons, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and her fellow doctors at Seattle Grace Hospital had replaced Clark Kent, et. al as the center of my world. I became completely caught up in the swirl of their personal and professional passions. In a very real sense, death is much like finishing a good TV series, whether “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Smallville” or “Dallas,” except the multiverse has a much bigger collection of DVDs than Netflix. Just like at death, you change reference points. It’s still you, but you experience different lives, different friends and even different worlds.
Think of a football field full of stacks of DVDs piled up to the sky. At death, you’ll even get to watch some re-makes — perhaps in one, you’ll get that dream wedding dress you always wanted, or a doctor cures the disease that caused your loved one to die. The story goes on even after J.R. gets shot. Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.
As for me, I still have Season Eight of “Grey’s Anatomy” to look forward to.
Robert Lanza has over two dozen scientific books, including Biocentrism which lays out his theory of everything. You can learn more about his work at www.robertlanza.com
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/biocentrism-and-death_b_908045.html