Paul Davies - Does a Soul Have an Afterlife?

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Is there a soul? Is there an afterlife? The two questions are likely related. No soul, no afterlife. Is there any evidence for either? Any argument? However, the two questions-soul and afterlife-might be separated. A soul but no afterlife? Or an afterlife but no soul? According to science, you cannot have either. But is science the last word?
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@TorgerVedeler

In my experience (and I can only try to speak based on what once happened to me), the true nature of everything is beyond what words or language can describe. This is what so many people who have near-death experiences talk about. Complete, total, and indescribable love.

@123sensu

Excellent discussion. Many thanks!

@SkyDarmos

An excellent discussion.

@surendrakverma555

Thanks Sir for important discussion

@JAYMOAP

Keep it up Robert. Do you plan an interview with Douglas Stanford or Sean Hartnoll on black holes? Would be interesting interview

@_UnknownEntity

Well said 👍

@Austinite333

I am not so much a believer in souls but am more in tune with the idea that aware collective consciousness helps animate all living things. As a collective they operate both as a group and individually. We are data collectors in this thick 3D world. What survives is not the ego you. The grand person you may believe yourself to be. That dies with the body. A purer essence of yourself may move on though.

@richardatkinson4710

BTW As always, a great interview by RLK.

@Monkofmagnesia

I do not think the question was ever addressed in this video.

@100woodywu

Very good, and a very open minded viewpoint from Paul Davies . Neil DeGrasse Tyson once said in an interview that in truth we know very little of the universe when considering most is dark matter/dark energy and we probably don’t have the bigger questions to ask in the first place in regards to the universe and meaning of anything as there is always bigger questions.

@dwivedys

Pretty solid discussion this from Paul and Mr CTT

@ronhudson3730

God/eternity/the state of being before the Big Bang could choose to intervene and perhaps does occasionally, Jesus anybody? But to intervene regularly to change outcomes or prevent tragedies implies stepping on the free-will of people. Which would negate the value of our existence. We wouldn’t have to choose to do good. “God”, however defined, knows the most specific and quotidian aspects of your life, but to respect the value of your personal agency, stands aside and glories and suffers along with you.

@stephenwatts2649

Did you know that there is no inherent illumination or luminosity in photons? “Light,” as such, cannot be found there. Photons are, perhaps, ‘packets’ of energy which have the properties of both spread-out waves and localized particles. Photons only take on the appearance of being luminous as they arise within consciousness, in our mind’s eye. It may be that photons are spread-out energy potentials that fill the immensity of space, and only take on the appearance of being a localized discrete particle of “light” when we become aware of them in consciousness, in this actualized awareness we call mind. Thus, you are the light of the kosmos. This “light” is only arising in us. The world outside of a mind is perfectly ‘dark,’ or empty, unactualized in any way. Of course, what else could it be? What would perceive it as illuminated, or as any “thing”?

@Samsara_is_dukkha

Living Life in an incomprehensible Universe with virtually no free will and no intrinsic meaning is already challenging enough without the need for an Afterlife that would presumably present conditions that are just as challenging, if not more.

@glenncurry3041

You don't lose the monkey when you get it off your back. Learning to live in reality is not the inferior approach.

@ajg3768

Life is short, eternity forever.

@jbsnyder3477

When was this recorded? I believe Paul Davies is much older now!

@ndchieh

We don’t even have a proof of Soul exists.

@Magik1369

I have experienced and lived with kundalini awakening for 23 years. This is the process of Self Realization. This process is archetypal and is built into the psyche of every person. Every human being will eventually experience this process. It is extremely agonizing and difficult. And what does one discover? One discovers his/her True Nature...which is Divine and eternal. Every religion and spiritual tradition points to this in symbolic mythological language and rituals. Yes...the Soul is real. However, most people are severed from their Soul and do not know their True Nature, which lies dormant at the bottom of the psyche.

@scottc3165

"Reality - it is what it is." Well said. And doesn't it all just boil down to the individual and how he/she sees the universe? Their relationship with it?