When We All Die, Where Do We Go?

Book 1: The External Universe | Chapter 1.8 | 29 July 2020

As already established, Janthopyism prefers to leave the mystery to the mysterious by declaring agnosticism on matters with no testable answers. Until someone dies and then sends a message from the afterworld, we're calling rubbish on every single belief system that declares otherwise.

On the flip side of that, we're not ruling out the prospect of some prophet somewhere stating something correctly. If so, however, it was likely a lucky guess. Predicting what happens in real life is impossible enough, a feat no personality has achieved in any satisfactory manner throughout history. Even the greatest prophets who walked the Earth did not successfully foretell anything specific; only the ambiguities were reshaped in post to fit the narrative. Why then would you trust any theory about death, a topic which has even less proof to any of its assertions?

Regardless, we do have some opinions on existing hypotheses, and we'd like to pass those to you now.

In the Janthopoyism realm of understanding, the least realistic scenario would be a comprehendible plane of existence after death, such as those taught by Abrahamic traditions. Whether Heaven or Hell, these locations are described by the same senses we use to perceive our reality now. Why would we see or hear or feel or even think anything after we die? Our eyes and ears, as well as our nervous and neurological systems, are left behind. Look at a dead body; those components are still there! Hence this stance appears unimaginative to us, as an oversimplified description to force a point across. Which, to be fair, many modern followers do believe to be the case, yielding these afterlife presentations as symbolic rather than literal.

The reincarnation proposal holds better logic. The energy debate between scientific and New Age jargon goes on, but physics teaches us that energy can be converted in form but never created nor destroyed. In the Janthopoyism terminology of the spiritual electricity that runs through our everything, we could use this as a foundation for the reincarnation theory.

There is a life force that powers us, and once we expire, it departs our meat bodies to be used elsewhere. Cut a dead body, and it does not heal; that's how you know something is missing. Beyond this, any proposed details are vague assumptions. We argue against energy remaining bonded in one piece then recycled in a repeated location, such as the same human rebirthed on Earth. This notion is nonsensical on an infinite universal scale and problematic when considering our 7-fold population growth over 200 years. Furthermore, for the quality of this reincarnated life to be judged against its abandoned brain does not correspond to our understood philosophies. Instead, these threats sound suspiciously like manmade attempts at moral herding. Although, perhaps we are wrong.

For fun, let's entertain the feasibility of an individual who is so invested in our world that a potent thought leaves a readable imprint in their energy. Perhaps "past life memories" are mere residues of perceived information that a new mind catches a glimpse of. It could be a spark of reused electricity holding onto a snippet of previously recorded information now running through the grooves of a fresh brain. Following that, perhaps ghosts are stains of intense emotion stuck within an energy field of an atmosphere that some people can notice when they are in tune with it? Maybe maybe maybe! Janthopoyism does not believe nor disbelieve any of this but enjoys the theoretical possibilities of everything.

In the end, Janthopoyism declines to commit to an official position, but we muse death to feel similar to a flash of relief. The brain may register it for a very brief moment, perhaps merely an instant, or perhaps nothing whatsoever. Your Internal Energy then escapes the physical body, now liberated to become one with the Universal Energy like it has many times before. It is akin to a squirt of water into the ocean or breaking a sealed jar to let the air out. The content is no longer a singular unit. It moves apart and spreads freely in all directions for infinity, each fractional ready to group with new currents whenever Life summons a complete collection of electricity again. And "you", as in your mind and personality, will know nothing about it because your neurons remain with the corpse.

As discussed, Janthopoyism prides itself in welcoming the unknown. The excitement of life lies in the enigmatic! Much of the human race no longer requires spiritual pampering to find safety in their reality. To glue yourself to an unprovable concept is setting yourself up for disappointment and shuts you off to every alternative idea available. An all-encompassing "God" figure would appreciate a human who refuses to dumb down the gift of the mind. Committing to a theory, any theory, is blasphemy of the highest order, especially those speculations built upon zero acceptable evidence.

And when you examine the evolution of the Universe around us, it's not too stretchy to contemplate that death (and whatever comes after it) may have evolved into something different too. Each generation's spiritual departure could execute slightly differently from the previous era, inspired to move forward like everything, forever.

Cool, huh? Now, let's never talk of this hypothetical waffle again. From here on, we shall focus on the life you are experiencing right now. Because it's much more fun to play within this current perspective.

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