Hello Friends,
I was raised in a religious family, rejected that life until my mid-thirties and again when followers of organized religion abandoned friendship for my wife: all but one. The one barely keeps in touch but she tries; One from a membership of three hundred. My wife served well before early onset dementia. This post is not about that it is an illustration of how I have arrived at my current thinking.
Atheist? Agnostic? Do I believe that there is a realm that spirits inhabit? Maybe. I have leaned toward connecting with nature more pay much greater attention to living things around me. My scientific background leads me to doubt a great deal of what organized religion teaches. The idea of good and evil survives in my beliefs. Codes for doing profitable things and rejecting doing things counterproductive are a practical philosophy. Love. The most positive of human emotions are shared by other creatures toward good beings, the offspring, and connected social entities (family for one). "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. "The End" is a song by the Beatles composed by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon-McCartney) for the album Abbey Road." So? What is this about?
I started to wonder if I would be aware of it if I died in the night.
Would I continue in the dreams or enter a spiritual realm? Or, like the time before we are born, there is nothing to be aware of?