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Just wanted to say "thanks, this is interesting" and that the view of the afterlife as exactly the same as life just with less physical maintenance is ... well, just IS, I suppose. There is a little existential terror, though, for me.
I can see why folks wish for an afterlife with a kindly father figure, cool golden cities with rent free mansions and happening club scenes, as sitting around at one's death site seems bleak... sort of like working the counter at a rural gas station for eternity, but worse.
suppose if one cannot imagine a different scenario then they stay at the familiar? It might be important to develop an imagination for afterlife states... or is there an organization that helps with training and post death placement? Are we all just on our own in the void... limited by our dreams, or lack thereof? Brrrrr.
There are plenty of institutions that "help" you to move safely into their respective afterlife, but i don't trust them. There seems to be a certain dynamic interaction between the two worlds that seems to be kept as a tightly guarded secret..
originally posted by: Baddogma
a reply to: Terpene
First off, I'm glad you have a darker green in your avatar to help differentiate us ... I was worried that I had over-posted in this thread until I read a little closer.
Secondly, as to
There are plenty of institutions that "help" you to move safely into their respective afterlife, but i don't trust them. There seems to be a certain dynamic interaction between the two worlds that seems to be kept as a tightly guarded secret..
I have run into that narrative about certain post death communications being "restricted" by some organization or authority, but place such things in the " either I'll know when (if) I croak ... or not at all" file.
I'm still leaning towards life being a fever dream by some poor void spawned, insane emergent consciousness.
The common problem is these (deceased) kids are traumatized and need special care. That they are the favorites of fairies complicates things further. Yet that brings in a lot of additional help from the fae.
This interested me. Did the fae come to favor the traumatized . . .
or were they beings that evolved or emerged into creation as a result of trauma in humans?
P.S. May be out of left field but compelled to ask you about being attracted to old trees?
I hope you don't mind me asking some random questions as they emerge...
Why is it we don't remember the world of fae when born here?
Why, when, and how is that memory locked away?
Who is the woman in green?
everything transitions just fine only with the memories seem to have some hick ups... Not that we loose the memory but it is blocked, and when we die there is something going on with the memories too...
It seems to hold something detrimental to the whole dynamic, otherwise i guess it would be an individual decision.
Explained earlier in thread.
because the world of fae does not run in linear time