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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.
