An Afterlife?

The human condition (as interpreted) can create a need for something outside ones daily grind. But the mental condition of the self is always the result of a past that wants to define.  The past is security because it is the known.  So if a person can project the past as the reality of what should be then however deluded that may be it serves the illusion of something everlasting, without change and manifestly perfect.

Since we obviously are not going to find this state of euphoria in the natural world we create the super-natural world.  A world as defined by religious traditions, both familiar, exotic and outrageously ill-logical.  But as human beings we are inclined to be intellectually lazy.  If someone will do our critical thinking for us, then all the better.  After all we would rather be watching football or some reality show on TV.

An "awakend individual" sees the absolute truth of the moment.  There is no distortion that accompanies the confusion and disintegration of doctrines of religion.  Or for that matter the doctrines of corporate or political entities.  As is realized all these entities have one thing in common.  The control of others for the good of the "cult".  It is a fact that we have to live with and interact with these entities as social beings. But as individuals who are aware of the disintegration and confusion that they generate we must remain in the truth of the moment.

One who is seeking to escape the grind and the unrelenting conflict of life may seek refuge in doctrines which teach that a better existence awaits after death.  The mind seeks continuity in life.  The security that we know what will happen in the future.  So religious doctrines attempt to sell one on an afterlife that guarantees continuity.  That you will continue in some form.  But it is the worst kind of despotism for it is the promotion of a fantasy which cannot be proved.  So one gets drawn into a belief which cannot be questioned by its adherents.  It says because it is "gods" will one may not use logic and common sense to question. And this is the great tragedy of giving oneself over to doctrines and dogma, one becomes a pawn in the struggle to give credence to activities that divide and create fear.  Freedom from all these spurious cults is the answer to a sane existence of a life of unconditioned peace.