Within some organizations, religions and scientific practices that seek immortality (or some kind of permanent continuity of existence), immortality is misinterpreted. It is not an end in itself but rather the side product of a journey into the divine. To seek immortality for the sake of immortality is an ego driven process. The ego seeking to propagate itself forever ishell not immortality. Death serves a function, to release a soul from a crystallizing ego that is impeding the soul’s evolution. When the ego is diminished to an extent as not to impede the soul’s evolution nor impede the service it provides to others then there is no need to drop the body, the hygiene of immortality is attained.
The ego seeks to survive but at the same time it sees itself as separate from everything else, the truth is that we are all part of a unifying principle. Therefore the desire for survival based on separateness is flawed and as a consequence this disrupts the inherent coherence of the living system impeding growth and setting up the conditions for decay. That which is driving our survival is that which ultimately blocks it.
Life and the universe goes on regardless of our individual existence, we are like waves on the ocean of life with no real independent existence from the ocean that we arose from. If conditions are such that the wave continues to perpetuate or such that we dissolve back into the great body of water, we are still the ocean nothing is lost.
In a nutshell, this is the dilemma that has always been faced by those who address themselves to the nature of a supposed intermediate state based on the immortality of the soul and its self-sufficiency. But the dilemma in this case exists only so long as......
