999 HIDDEN CRYPTOGRAPHY - PHASE 1

Our atoms and molecules may be recycled in new beings or objects of this world. Some of them may be reused by humans, some by animals, some by plants and some by microorganisms.

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It is our wish that they will find peace in this cycle of life, making part of new relationships.

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Why do we cry when a loved one dies? We are not crying for the lost person, but for all the relationships that this person embodied and created with others. We are crying for the lost possibilities of being together, of being related to each other as living beings.

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We might wish that our loved ones will be reborn as someone or something else, but we also know that they may not be reborn as anything at all.

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We might want them to be reborn so they can enjoy new relationships, but we also know that new relationships may not be possible at all.

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It is our wish that the lost person will continue being present in this world through their body and through their relationships with others.

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This is what remains of the person after their death. This is why we cry at a funeral, not for the lost person, but for ourselves and the others who are left behind.

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It is our wish that this person will be present in our lives through their body and through their relationships with us.

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This is what I wish for myself.
This is what I will leave behind.
This is why I cry at my own funeral.

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But we forget that we are immortal.
The atoms in your body were once inside the previous generation, and they will be inside those that follow.

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The atoms in your body were once inside a supernova, and they will be inside new star systems millions of years from now.

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You cannot leave the world, for you are not *in* the world. The world is not *out there*. The world is *within you*, physically, and mentally.

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The world as you experience it through your senses is not an accurate rendition of the world, but a subjective representation of reality  a *hallucination*  filtered and constructed by your brain.

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This hallucination, and the way that your brain constructs it, is optimized for survival in a very specific environment  the African savanna, tens of thousands of years ago. It is not optimized for the modern human living in a modern environment.

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Why should our minds be limited to the five senses and a small number of autonomic bodily functions? Why not extend them to encompass many additional faculties  for example, telepathy and other forms of extrasensory perception?

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Why should our minds be limited to thinking about reality one thing at a time, rather than being able to think about many things at once  to be able to find relations among all the different aspects of the world, rather than being confined to particular ones?

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The standard answer is that these changes would require a complete transformation of human nature, a complete redesign of the human body and brain, and a total reconstitution of our culture.

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Moreover, it would require a complete change in human consciousness  after all, if people are able to see an entire new spectrum of light with their eyes, they're going to be seeing things that no one has ever seen before.