Death is Not the End

Life is a series of successive states of consciousness with a common thread running through them. Death is visibly a psychophysical disintegration but it cannot reduce our existence to a dead end; rather, it opens a different state of consciousness no longer circumscribed by the limitations of the body-mind complex. At the macro level, consciousness is considered to be the ultimate existence, the Being from which everything else postulates, as has been surmised in quantum physics today. The fundamental question on the working of consciousness after physical death has reached the domain of neurophysiology, cardiology and quantum physics from eastern spirituality, especially Tibetan Buddhism. Extensive neuropsychological research on patients with neardeath experience has shown that they experience an expanding consciousness while their brains register no activity at all. A majority think a hundred times faster with greater clarity than is humanly possible. They go back to their childhood days and experience an intense connection with everything and everyone around them instantly or before. It is now empirically proved that people can think and feel when they are clinically unconscious due to acute pancerebral ischemia. Death, therefore, cannot mean the end of consciousness. Consciousness is separate from body and it survives beyond death. During our waking state, consciousness is limited to psychological reality, but after death, the waking consciousness is exposed to many more realities.

Source: Economic Times, 5/04/2019