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Death is important, but still, the first traces of cults indicate more than just an interest in death.
You know, children and teenagers aren't afraid of death. Remember yourself. And the first people, both in terms of life expectancy and in relation to philosophy, were closer to teenagers. Yes, death surrounded them more closely, was more familiar. But to be afraid, you need a lot of free time to think about death, to try to understand it.
The time to notice death, to be hurt and to respect (to isolate from other things) was.�
Not only is there an interest in death, but there are a lot of traces that indicate a search for connections between yourself and the rest of the world. Drawings, masks, totems, rituals accompanying hunting and other moments of appeal to the outside world.
It is now possible to grow up without ever really seeing not only the starry sky, but even the sky that is open from multi-storey buildings. Do not feel the power of the forest lost in it for at least a couple of hours. Never see the predator's direct gaze. See mountains, sea, and steppe for the first time. All this makes you think about your place in the world.�
“What remains of a fairy tale later, after it has been told?”
Nothing at all? And from the life lived, the story of which is the same fairy tale?
Don't you also say that you remain alive in the memory, in the traces left by you in other people?�
These feelings, I emphasize, are feelings, not experiments, feelings of connection with the forest, with the wolf who looked into the eyes, with the brother who closed his eyes, and they give rise to thoughts that “there is something”.
There was no time to be afraid, and those who were very afraid of death did not survive well. But there was time to feel and remember, and this, on the contrary, gave strength.
The difference between a Person and a Soul, on the one hand, is huge, and on the other quite small – this is Memory. The soul remembers all its many lives on Earth, but the Personality remembers only the real life. But nevertheless, on a subconscious level, the Individual has the confidence that he knows more than he remembers.
Back in Eden, Satan said to the first couple, ” You will not die.” Since then, some people have been spreading this lie.
“And the serpent said to the woman,' No, you will not die,
5 But God knows that in the day that you eat of them, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3 – The Bible: https://bible.by/syn/1/3/
However, they died, became dust.
Because I want to.
No, seriously. A person believes in what they want. And I want to live forever, receiving, moreover, rewards for perfect deeds. And also to give birth to offspring, help them grow, look after them. This is the basic instinct of any animal – which is why the ancestors are both “in a better place” and “here, looking out for us”at the same time
There is such an intuition that we live not only in extended time, which we experience in the form of minutes, hours, days, and so on. But we can still live in some other dimension, which can be conditionally called eternal or timeless. Since physical death deprives us of these feelings, the idea of an afterlife arises.�
But, in essence, this is the idea of eternal life, we live in it during our lifetime, too, in parallel. This view was handled differently at different times. Mythologies appeared, as well as philosophical and religious concepts – various kinds of metaphysics that comprehended this dimension, this plane of our being, the plane of eternity – the timeless aspect.
It is difficult to imagine the cessation of the existence of your consciousness. You can imagine the death of your body, but the death of your ” I ” is very difficult to imagine. Of course, you can compare death to sleep, but in the end, falling asleep everyone knows that they will wake up.
Gautama Buddha also said: There is no unchangeable substance. Decomposition is the fate of all that is made up of parts.” The “eternal” must not interact in this universe, otherwise it will change and eventually become something else. The existence of the soul is believed in by people who are either too lazy or afraid to think about what conclusions follow from this.
I advise everyone to read S. Lem's story “An immortal soul.” Available on “RoyalLib”
See. Here are some animals. Animals (except for higher primates, more on this below) are not aware of their “I”. They just exist as they exist. For them (if they are gregarious) there are friends and strangers, but the world is themselves. There are no “people like me” (which does not prevent them from having their own semblance of ethics, meanwhile).
Higher primates have the beginnings of self-awareness. They even master the simplest forms of speech (if taught). But this does not exceed the level of a 2-year-old child. At the same time, it is known that children do not develop self-awareness as an individual until they are 3 years old.
Let's go back to the primates. At some point in the female monkey, the so-called mitochondrial Eve, there is a mutation that is fixed in the offspring. The essence of this mutation is that the offspring have intelligence. Homo Sapiens begins its existence. One of the most important consequences of this is that a person recognizes others as similar to themselves. He understands that he, for example, is waiting for the same thing as his brother, if he puts his hand in the fire (and so he learns from other people's experience, and in general consciously learns). He understands that there are causes and effects, there is he and others, and these others are just like him. He understands that the world in general is divided into parts, that there is a forest and there are trees and there is one particular tree, and if it burns, then others will burn.
And he also understands that man is mortal, which means that I myself am mortal.
At the same time, inherited from evolution, we have an instinct that is responsible for the fear of danger, and death for him is also a danger. And a person, realizing that he is INEVITABLY mortal, experiences terrible frustration. He's losing HOPE. This is a terrible failure in the system, which animals do not have (they act under the influence of instinct, but DO NOT THINK about their mortality).
The idea of an afterlife solves this problem. A person has an explanation for why one should not be afraid of death. Or rather, not even so. Death disappears, and the cause of the system conflict disappears. This allows people to somehow continue to exist.
I think that a person has never lived do not believe in the afterlife. We believe that we are not children of the earth that aliens .How did we know that simple silicon is memory ?We fly . We dive to a great depth. Who gave it to us. Animals are still animals, just as they were animals .So not everything ends with death, there is still a sequel.
It is necessary to distinguish the ideas of modern people from the ideas of the ancients, with which the topic “what will happen after death” only began.�
It is a modern person who has some kind of “self”, an individual fear of death, and so on. The ancients had nothing like it, but it was quite different. There was a tribe, a community that survived in the harsh conditions of constant skirmishes with other tribes, food production, etc. Each performed an important function, and therefore the loss of even one member of the tribe was a weakening of the tribe, a breach in the defense. Plus the fear of a dead body carrying infection and putrefaction. The tribe needed, on the one hand, to keep the protection of the tribe intact, that is, to keep the protection of the tribe intact. not to allow the deceased to “leave permanently”, but on the other hand, to remove his dead and potentially infectious body from the living, but so that the deceased still benefits. And then there is a “cemetery” and various “cults of ancestors”, where these functions are just performed. The deceased becomes an “ancestor” and goes to a special “afterlife” world, from where he continues to monitor the living, give them advice (through shamans, etc.), protect them (then this is transformed into guardian angels, for example). And the cemetery itself becomes a sacred place, where the dead are separated from the living, but at the same time are always close.
And ideas about the afterlife then began to develop as ideas about that special world from which the dead help the living, protect them, where they know everything and sometimes share knowledge with the living.
Non-existence is hard to imagine. Hence, the richest system of ideas that there is life after death has grown (a contradiction even in words). This turned out to be a convenient psychological defense mechanism for avoiding major stresses. The abundance of cases when a person, in fact, did not die, “returning” to life, also played a role. In ancient times, the same lethargic sleep or poisoning with certain types of poisons could be perceived as death. We must not forget about the priests who used various techniques to imitate it, and then, “returning to life”, told what they considered necessary.