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Are we addicted to the drama of death?
The more I ponder the subject, the more I see that we as a culture are addicted to death. We cannot live without it. The assumption of death is our security blanket that keeps us from applying in-depth investigative techniques to figure out if people really, truly die when their body life ends.
I come to this conclusion after countless hours reading about the insights and adventures of people who have had classic near-death experiences (NDEs). When these people died, albeit temporarily, their conscious minds left their bodies.
Once they were resuscitated, they had awesome stories to tell, although they often encountered statements like, “Oh, that was just the drugs, dear.”
Addicted to death means that we are resisting the massive anecdotal evidence piling up (like here) that death is a transformation, not a termination. We like the mortality system as it is. We prefer our scary stories of pain and suffering.
Many miracles don't make the news
This is going back to the basics. When you choose to watch the news, do you have any idea what you are implicitly agreeing to watch?
Essentially you are agreeing to watch what a small group of people have decided is in your public interest to watch. They decide what the news is.
Supposedly, the news we watch and read is about real life. It’s puffed up to be the truth, just the facts. We’re supposed to be more informed as a result of our exposure to it. But if you stop to look at what material you’re habitually ingesting in our news reports, how much of it works as important information to know?
It’s often suggested that not watching the news makes one a current affairs dunce. Other thinkers, especially like Wayne Dyer, suggest that passing on the nightly news improves a person’s mental health.
Our assumptions may be all wrong
If high profile psychic authors are right, death doesn’t really, truly kill us, and that changes everything. It means that many paradigms driving our material culture are as dead wrong as when everyone thought Earth was pancake flat.
As a media culture, we dote on graphic details of fatal car wrecks, plane crashes, and murders, but ironically we seldom publicly ponder what happens next to the victims who died. The news media assume they hit flatline oblivion and reporters then focus mostly on the gore of the exit scenes.
Our country spends billions of tax dollars to send robots to Mars to see if that planet could have supported life. We send other devices crashing into the moon for much the same purpose. We spent billions more on orbiting the Hubble telescope to study the origins of the Universe from a scientific perspective.
But we won’t seriously investigate—despite growing anecdotal evidence that we should—whether or not souls survive death, and if they do, what that means to our bottom line. The ruling media culture generally defines those who seriously ponder the afterlife as escapists trying to avoid a harsh reality by making up stories of gossamer-winged froufrou.
