explosivecombat: (And what have we here?)
Solf J Kimblee ([personal profile] explosivecombat) wrote in [personal profile] glaciates 2012-08-28 07:46 pm (UTC)

Not in any traditional sense, no; I have my own beliefs regarding what happens to us after we die, based on the ideas presented in the alchemic principle of "all is one, and one is all."

I've always been incredibly aware of the energy flowing within substances and matter, and within living beings as well. Energy is infinite, and can be neither destroyed nor created from nothing; obviously it won't remain within the human body once the body dies, but the energy - one's life-force, if you will - has to go somewhere. I believe that it rejoins the flow of energy within the world itself - perhaps inhabiting and creating other living beings, perhaps being used for another individual's alchemy.

I believe we're a combination of the energy flows from our surroundings and those who have come before us - "all is one" - and when we die, we return to being such - "one is all." Our souls are a natural combination of that energy; since this isn't reincarnation, but redistributing, "we" as we were cease to exist, but whatever we were composed of does not.

It's a bit convoluted to explain, but bluntly put, no, that sort of belief system doesn't exactly allow for an afterlife.

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