Thread: Catholic Faith

Carôusoul

I agree that the brain plays a role in giving access to stored memories, that's a given. As I consider it a receiver of consciousness in this dimension much like the television is a receiver for channels that are broadcasted. But the physical body didn't merely appear out of no-where for no reason. That wouldn't make any sense that DNA encoded or the human body can manifest itself out of nothingness or chaos. It came from a source that had the information already encoded (in consciousness). It's manifestation is only a small aspect of reality that is visibly evident. Even in chemistry it is evident that substances get converted and transmuted into different forms both visible and invisible. Why would it be any different with the human body. The light spectrum and other stimulus such as sound goes beyond what we can see and hear. Just as reality and dimensions go beyond what we can perceive. That is just a reasonable assumption from what we know. You may need your physical body to exist in this specific denser dimensional field (if your mind is weak, there is mythology of monks that create their own bodies in this field and bi-locate at will and more) but shouldn't need it for other dimensions which you move through without it that are of higher vibratory rate which would not be visible from normal physical perception in the body. Also you seem to ignore the fact that matter is merely vibration and motion of energy. There is nothing stopping us from assuming that the decay or entropy of the body is simply a cycle in which our energy body of that dimensional field dissolves forcing our consciousness into the higher vibratory field, like a piece of clothing that wears out that is discarded.

You asked for a source so I'll give you a quick one to be fair. Dr. Ken Ring published a paper in the Journal of Near-Death Studies (Summer, 1993).

Concerning near-death experiencers (NDErs) who, while out of their bodies, observe detailed events occurring far away from their dead body - sometimes hundreds of miles away. But the most profound aspect of such NDEs is how many of these distant out-of-body observations are later verified by third-parties to have actually occurred - a phenomenon called "veridical perception."

Further information on other evidence can be found on this page. Scientific evidence for survival of consciousness after death (which also references a number of books and makes an overall case for the evidence available.

BLUELINE976 you are probably correct that not many people consider themselves a mechanical piece of meat. But that is essentially what an atheist beliefs are suppose to be founded upon. Someone's motivation for believing what they do is anyone's speculation. That was just my possible interpretation of why someone would want to view themselves as little more than flesh.