Is there life after death? I mean not religious evidence,?

Answer 1

Probably Einstein thought he proved E = mc square ... the indicators lead to something like a subtle etheral level of existence .. science yet to find out that with concrete and repititive evidences ...Re-incarnation, negation of such a concept totally is non scientific. probability is ther such things can be true ... Conceptually the arguments favouring the Re-incarnation doctrine are very logical, reasonable and rational ...

The proofs and evidence for science for such a doctrine, with its limited number of testing tools available, probably can be said not enough to be proven as a fool proof fact ... but negation of that completely ... then that's yet another religion called Science ...

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Answer 2

Life means eternal spirit. There is nothing 'alive' about the body. The body is a bag of chemicals only all of which can be either manufactured in the lab or procured from a cadaver. Yet, if anyone were to take all the constituents of a human body, put them in their proper places, proper ratios, etc, etc, no one in their right mind would believe this body was 'alive'. It would still lay there as the bag of chemicals it is.

For those who think the body is alive by itself without any need to mention the spirit soul: why has no scientist or doctor or anyone ever given life to a dead body? If this soul-less idea is scientific, then they should prove it in the lab. Make a living body from a dead one. It should be easy with all the medical knowledge we have. The reason that no one has done it is because there is more to life than the body. The body is a vehicle only, nothing more. The driver and occupier of the body is the eternal spirit soul, the spiritual energy of the Lord. Because the soul is eternal and the body is temporary, the soul must leave and find a new vehicle when the body is no longer viable. That leaving is what we call death. In reality the body was never alive in the first place.

Even though no one has proven in a lab that the body is viable without a soul by bringing a dead body to life again, people with very little intelligence in the matter say there is no proof of the existence of the soul. By definition, the soul is spiritual in nature. This means the soul cannot be perceived by the senses and is therefore not measureable or perceivable by any instruments of today's sciences. But this in no way disproves the existence of the soul. What it means is that science today is not up to the task.

Proof of the soul's existence is possible by the process of self-realization. As the name implies self-realization means that the person receives self knowledge of his eternal existence. It is revealed by purification of consciousness to him/herself alone. Just as when you eat a meal and become satisfied, you know your own feelings of satisfaction, but no one else knows this. And to prove to someone else how you felt would be very difficult if not impossible. How do you measure your satisfaction? In the same way, self-realization is the science of knowing the self, the soul, through purification of consiousness. If a materialistic fool has no knowledge of self-realization or knowledge of the soul, this is not a proof of anything but their ignorance. The second chapter of the Bhagavad-gita gives more information than I could put here. So check that out at the link below.

Answer 3

Despite what previous posters have written, there is NO--nada, zero, zilch--scientific evidence for the existence of either a soul or an afterlife. All indications are that they are no more than human notions to comfort us against the finality of death. They are wishful thinking by creatures sentient enough to ponder their own demise but not advanced enough to actually do anything about it.

As for religious evidence, that is an oxymoron if ever there was one.

Those who claim to have seen one--and it's odd how one's description of an afterlife correlates strongly with one's cultural upbringing--rely on the "argument from ignorance" logical fallacy, which states that if they can't explain it, then it must be supernatural. This is equivalent to saying that because a 3-year-old can't explain how a car runs, then therefore the car must run on magic. Or to saying that because a creationist can't explain how evolution works, therefore "goddidit."

Is it really so bad that there is no afterlife? Why do so many people reject out of hand, even get offended, at the idea that this life is all we have?

Fear of death sure can make humans think irrationally....

Answer 4

Assuming that you are looking for pure evidence of transfer of life from the standpoint of science or tangible evidence, consider this:

Eat a fish, and the fish lives on IN you.

Lovely, huh -- if not exactly comforting...

ALL HUMAN LIFE is based on LIGHT. If the sun were extinguished tomorrow, absolutely anything that we call "life" on Earth would be DEAD in short order.

In this respect, we are all beings of light. Another lovely one, huh...

And some "alternative" religions equate the sun to their god.

Additionally, the scientific stance that no energy is ever lost -- it just changes, then what precisely happens to someone who dies? Have you witnessed it in person? Is all there is to life simply heat? Not by my experience, but then I have been at death's door more than once, and there IS more than we see here.

But you'll have to wait to find out.

Watch the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know" -- I have a feeling it's right in your line of thinking...

:)

I can't resist:

Any "Libertarian" view that insists that no, nada, zilch etc. blahblahblah is the ONLY answer that works is AS OFFENSIVE to me as any Christian, Jew, and so on that insists that THEIR answer is the only one that works.

Death IS a VERY personal trial for YOU -- it is as personal as the rules of this Matrix you agreed to live within. Your design of your death is what will matter to you -- and others' answers should serve you in that your mind and metaphysical base remain OPEN to NEW ideas while having some regard for the old ideas...

There's always illlusion to cloud the truth here -- so, all the best to you... :)

Answer 5

There is one kind of evidence; from people who have had near death experiences. A large percentage of people who have been on the verge of death report going toward a bright light, realizing they are dieing but have a feeling of profound peace. Sometimes they report meeting relatives or friends who had died before and being welcomed by them. It is common too for a hospital patient who is near death to see themselves and the doctor and staff working on them. They often say they felt they were floating near the ceiling.
Even though there is no direct way to know if their experiences are reality some are able to recall details of what they saw that they normally wouldn't be able to know. What the doctor was saying, and even describing the medical staff in detail, though they had never seen them before.
The fact that so many people have reported similar experiences doesn't prove that their experiences were real, but they certainly think they were, and sometimes have evidence to support it.
Science can't deal with such things because there is no way to test it in a laboratory, but the fact that they can't provide a test for it doesn't mean it isn't actually the truth either.

Answer 6

The American Medical Society had an article not to long ago about the possibility of Life existing after death I believe.A medical Magazine I am sure it was. It seems there are allot of people that have reported that their body came out of their body and they went through this tunnel of light and saw people they did not know or did know. Some argue that it is simply the brain shutting down. Neurons firing to stay alive. However the experience was so vivid to these people that some doctors have now taken another thought to the possibility.

Answer 7

What a stupid question by definition of the words! You must be verging on brain dead to have asked. Those who answered YES must be worse than you. How do they know? Have they died, experienced something and come back to spread THE WORD? Of course not! They've just blindly believed the drivel that some other mindless, insecure individual repeated. Live life well now because there might might not even be a tomorrow. B well.

Answer 8

Read translation of Vivek Chudamani by Chinmayanand if you are really interested in knowing your answer. In short, yes there is life after death! Science is not an answer to spiritual truth, becasue science is based on what it can perceive under conditioned environment! There are lots of thing in this universe which the science is yet to discover!

Answer 9

Go to your local libraries and read dozens of books on the subject. Make them unbiased books. If you can get a book by Andrew Jackson Davis ( a yesterday's seer) by all means spend the time on it or even buy it from a bookstore. He sat beside a dying person describing how the feet went cold and the spirit slowly emerged from the head of the dying body.
Good luck

Answer 10

Buddha, Plato and Jesus thought so. We live in a physical world ruled by our senses, therefore we would not be able to 'prove' that life after death exists becuase we are using our physical senses and material knowledge to try understand it. My teacher taught me that you must learn such things on your own. This is your journey, dont believe in books or peoples statements... you go out there and find the answers for yourself.

My teacher: Paramahansa Yogananda. Google search him and find good quality information.