In this thread the past few days I've retired from being a contributer, content to be a reader.

This has continued to be interesting, educational, and sometimes funny. I won't backtrack to "original sin" and Aliens since I already put in my time on that one way back on page 10. 

As for "after-life", I can't get into Constantine's construct of projecting Roman/Greek myth onto Christianity and turning Zeus into Jehovah. White guy with a beard sitting on a very heavy golden throne suspended by water vapor, cotton wool and zero turtles just doesn't work as a being who is Everywhere at All times. By definition he is way too finite to be the Ultimate Infinite Being of Love and Creation. Needless to say, what do I know? "It might be turtles all the way down."

But what if...

another dimension were experienced when we die. A dimension not only of sight and sound but a dimension of mind. A Land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. 

Sorry, I confused myself for a second. Forget that, I was thinking of the Twilight Zone.

What if, there is an eternal value to the sum of what we call ourselves that remains after we let go of our body? And that, while we no longer have the system available to perceive this earthly world we become aware of another dimension that has always been here in a different phase of time/space.

Merged with the Universe in a sea of nuetrinos  we might feel reunited with the source of all "things" if there was a consciousness to the Universe. And if the Universe had a consciousness that absorbed the being-self of everyone who ever lived then you might call that God. But if it turned out that was true but it wasn't God, I still wouldn't want to bad mouth it right away, being new to the Dimension and all.