11. What Comes After Death?

What comes after death? That depends on who we ask. Representatives of the different religions will tell us their own versions, as well as philosophers, scientists, Darwinists, esotericists, etc., depending on the respective world view. At best we can believe it, but we cannot know it. Yes, I'm sure we can. We just have to ask the right person. There's only one person who can tell us. No one else can do that. That's the one we have to go to. Where do we find this one? Well, this one is our Self.


But our Self cannot tell us with words, it can only show us. To gain the knowledge, we must experience it. We don't have to die first. However, it is not possible to do this simply at the push of a button. We have a long, long way to go until then. The path to the Self leads us far inside, deep inside, to our center, to the source of life, to silence. There that which does not come into being and does not pass away, that which was not born and will never die, is acting.

So, the question is not whether we can know, but whether we want to know. Let us be satisfied with our superficial existence, let us accept our suffering, let us live with comfortable illusions, or let us take the arduous path to the source and find the answers we think we cannot know.

The state of death is outside the dimensions of our space-time, outside of space and time. In order to reach this state, we have to leave our levels of consciousness and come to a higher level of consciousness. This level is higher than our mind, our mental. I therefore call it the supramental Level. It is the state of being one with everything, the state of pure consciousness, of conscious death. For thousands of years, mystics from all cultures and religions have experienced this state. They tried to describe it and called it enlightenment, redemption, awakening, liberation or whatever. They are just different names and terms to describe something that cannot be described. We can read these descriptions as parables, as visions and metaphors in old writings. But we can also set out and experience this state of consciousness by ourselves.

How can one experience the state of death in life? For my attempt to explain this, I must once again resort to quantum physics. Our universe, our world, is a quantum system, i.e. it is not analog, but is composed of tiny quanta (tiny little energy packets).  Our life is also quantized, composed of many tiny moments. Between these moments space, time, matter and energy have disappeared and dissolved in a cloud of probabilities, potentiality. Just as a film is only a sequence of many single frames, our life is only a sequence of many discontinuous moments. It is our IPO that creates these moments from potentiality and our life from the sequence of moments. The gaps between our life moments are timeless, so that we cannot perceive them with our space-time-oriented level of consciousness and in which our consciousness goes through the state of death. By creating a fact, this timeless state is ended and we are in the next moment. Our life is a constant alternation of waking, sleeping and death states, of which our consciousness can only perceive the first two. If we run a film very slowly, we can see the transitions between the individual frames. Likewise, in deep meditation, when we are in our center, at the source of our life, we can slow down our IPO to the point where we can look into the gaps between our life moments. These gaps are not in space-time. When we experience it, we experience potentiality, oneness with everything, pure consciousness.

Meditation is like dying. During meditation we let go of everything, leave everything behind. Our feelings, our thoughts and above all our memories. Our memories of our lives, our achievements, our pleasures, our fears. Our memories of our families, our friends, our profession. Our entire past disappears until nothing remains. This is what Jesus means when he says that we should become like newborn children to enter the kingdom of heaven. Because these have (still) no past and therefore no memories of it. We are born with an empty mind and in the course of our life we fill it - with past. Our brain, our mind, is just a huge collection of antiques. When we empty our mind again, when we have left our memories of our past behind, we can remember the future. It is potentiality, the kingdom of heaven. This shift from the past to the future, from reality to potentiality, from the in-form to the formless, from the earthly to the kingdom of heaven, is dying. Dying is resurrection. In meditation we can experience this state.