I was just talking about something and i made some joke about kharma in an ether or something inside me clicked. I was talking to this guy and I just opend up and talked and explained it to him. It basically involves a lot of beliefs which I hadn’t (consciously) come across before but actually read about today on this site.
The belief that everything is in fact one matter experiencing itself through itself and out of itself. That you are me, that I am you that we are simultaneously both and neither. That death is not something to be afraid of, that we shouldn’t fear it. When we “die” we merely awaken from the state of stupor we all currently inhabit and that you will reach some form of enlightenment and one-ness with the universe as you finally, inevitably awake. I can’t possibly hope to explain it anymore than that and feel free to disbelieve because to me it doesn’t matter as all religions are fundamentally the same and it does not change depending on what name you choose to give it. So there you go.
When I finished explaining this to my friend his first reaction was “Well, it certainly makes a lot more sense than Christianity”
One thing that popped up on this site was that coincided with what I just explained was that through lucid dreaming you could visit what some would refer to as the “afterlife”, others “dreamtime” (aborigines) and others “the real world”. I pass no judgement on this either way as it is something to me that has yet to be explored…