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Western Philosophy. Robert Lanza, M.D. – BIOCENTRISM » What Happens When You Die? What happens when we die? Do we rot into the ground, or do we go to heaven (or hell, if we’ve been bad)? Experiments suggest the answer is simpler than anyone thought. Without the glue of consciousness, time essentially reboots. The mystery of life and death can’t be examined by visiting the Galapagos or looking through a microscope.

It lies deeper. It involves our very selves. We awake in the present. But if you remove everything from space, what’s left? I was a young boy when I realized there was something unexplainable about life that I simply didn’t understand. Over his shop a chimney cap went round and round, squeak, squeak, rattle, rattle. The woodchuck’s hole was in such close proximity to Mr. I followed him into his shop, which was crammed with all manner of tools and chimes of different shapes and sounds hanging from the ceiling. The next day I set off with a butterfly net. As long as I live I will remember that day.

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