Quote:i have always thought about that. Same logic would apply to astral travel and communication when you are in sleep state at night.
Its like a 'being in the present moment' thing. You experience everything in a present moment but forget when it has passed and cant recall any of the experience.
It shows how much of our experience as humans is based on memory and recall.
Yes. I have thought about this too. I think that's the main reason why dreams seem less real than waking reality -- because in dreams we have no short term memory, only the present moment. Some of my dreams are visually as vivid as regular waking reality, but the lack of short term memory and self-consciousness deprives even these vivid dreams of a sense of full-blown reality.
I think the afterlife would have to include the faculty of short term memory or else it really would be quite limited, a step down from life on earth, basically just a dreamworld. Many NDE accounts I have read also say that they had full access to memory -- in fact superior memory capabilities than during life on earth.
Quote:I think that in a linear sense, as we evolve, some of our future selves will hold that remembrance as the veil of separation begins to fall away.
I agree. I think there will come a time in the future when the spiritual world will merge with the physical world, and the veil between "living" and "dead" will be rent asunder. As a Christian, I personally believe this will take place when Christ returns to earth along with the (departed) saints from throughout history, and the saints alive on earth will be transformed to gain spiritual/astral bodies according to the prophecy of the Apostle Paul. It is at this time that people will finally be able to remember their entire past, whatever lives in different planes, whether earthly or non-earthly, they have ever had.
I am undecided about reincarnation, although very much open to the possibility. One thought I have is that perhaps reincarnation is when a part of the spirit splits off and enters a new physical body, while part remains in the spiritual world. The part that didn't reincarnate is one's "higher self" and can perhaps be accessed in dreams and visions. When one "dies" or leaves the physical body, the part of one's spirit that had split off is reunited with the part that remained in the spiritual plane, and one's person regains wholeness rather than the conscious/subconscious split we experience during life on earth. That's just my own little theory I've been thinking about lately.
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