Overview: Afterlife Mysteries

INTRODUCTION

C hildren take the continuity of life for granted. It is the fact of death that has to be taught. Self-preservation is single of humankind's most powerful instincts, transcending the grave itself, for the desire for immortality, an afterlife, is nothing other than one form of the search for self-preservation.

In the inner-self, humans visualize themselves as on-lookers of all that can be seen or can be imagined. Consciousness is experienced as a ever-flowing stream which, in spite of its temporary breaks in repose still seems to be continuous and without a conscious beginning or extreme point One goes to sleep many times, on the contrary always to wake once more. Humans have gotten into the habit of being alive. To think of oneself as non-being is difficult. race can accept the mortality of others, on the contrary not of themselves.

One of the earliest recorded expressions of