On Life and Death

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This is what a friend wrote me recently and after some thought, I think that it may be the closest to what I feel within me to be the truth about life and death. “We are all eternal. Our bodies are merely temporary, corruptible husks in which our souls dwell for a while so that we – as individual, unique sparks of the divine – may move, learn, work and grow on the earthly plane. Once the learning and work we needed to do this time around is complete, we escape our physical bodies (in what we call death) and return home in our purely spiritual, eternal form”. Clearly, he believes that we return many times something that I too feel makes sense. We have to remember too of course, that our little earth is but a speck of dust in the great cosmos. I know it is all a great mystery and religion has been talking about it from the beginning but there is much in religion that I cannot accept. The golden rule is found in all of the major world religions and if practiced would mean almost heaven on earth. How do you feel about this? Are you an atheist, agnostic or religious in some way? Perhaps you feel much as I do.