He starts off the chapter with some very important question
So you die , now what ?
So this question what is our mortality do we die after the body has shut down is the question that many philosophers and religions have been attempting to explain for centuries. Physics tells us that energy is never lost that our minds ,brains and the feelings we have about life operate by electrical energy and therefore energy like all others simply cannot disappear.
I think we are beginning to see with all the recent research and experiments that have been done and the information that we have covered here on the QLBC that this is a fact . so much information has been made available to us that it is hard to dispute this point and say the contrary. But there are still people and probably a good percentage of the population that still believe and identify with the body.
I love the point he makes that THE MATHEMEATICAL POSSIBILTY OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS ENDING IS ZERO. He goes on to discuss the concept of eternity which is an interesting concept and he does say it is one that has many layers to it.
Eternity doesn’t mean a limitless temporal sequence. I know that based on my religious upbringing eternity was something that existed out there. When you die you either go to Heaven or Hell and those were places that seemed to exist out there or you went to Purgatory to burn off your sins for being bad. Eternity he says resides out side of time altogether. It’s our languaging or beliefs that put this concept as an internal or external concept . Consciousness in the end transcends the body and I think that has been his main point throughout this book.
So this leads us to the biggie of all questions . then WHO AM I ? If I am the body then I must die. But if I am consciousness then I cannot die for the simple reason that consciousness may be expressed many ways and it ultimately cannot be confined.
He compares this feeling of being alive or this sense of ME to that of a light bulb that emits 100 watts of energy, He says we emit this neuroelectrical energy and we even emit the same heat as the light bulb. So in essence what he is saying is that energy can never die. It can neither be created or destroyed . It merely changes form.
So really we never die, we just change form.
Maria Jacques