RE: On Being Yourself
All right man I see what you mean.
Well, I saw you mentioning "surrender to unknowing" and there are certainly a lot of information we still don't yet understand, about a lot of things, but man I would love to really be able to understand all sort of crazy things about our reality.
I hope one day, one way or another we are able to keep doing big discoveries that improve our understanding of reality. The death subject is a little bit delicate because I don't see a way in which people could research or learn from it, although I have seen some crazy movies where people killed themselves (or close to) and to then return them back to life (they were doctors) and report everything they saw.
And there is another french movie, really cruel called martyrs that is about this same subject, people doing extreme things to see whats beyond death.
Who knows man, perhaps there is nothing after this, but I think we would all prefer for there to be something.
I think a lot more understanding can come from this type of surrender. Things are revealed to us rather than us accumulating information and piecing the puzzle together. When I have had a very clear mind everything makes sense, everything. It's crazy, but the thinking mind can't comprehend, there is another level of intelligence available to us.
I agree on death, I honestly don't know what comes after, but I bet there is something. I guess I was trying to reference the mystery of it. So much of life is more mysterious than we make it out to be. We think we understand things, but I don't know that we truly do yet. It's interesting how science with quantum mechanics is coming to a more spiritual understanding though. I think surrendering to not knowing actually opens us up to true knowing and understanding, which sounds very counterintuitive.