This may be my most uncomfortable post to date, but a necessary post.
What happens when we die?
Why do we experience fear or dread of it?
I will try to explain to our minds the essence of it.
Outside of physical complications, the essence of this fear is the forced surrender of our ego.
Our ego is our worldly identity. It is a conscious fixation and form adopted at birth.
We are programmed into it from birth. It is how we begin to relate to our new environment.
Over the years, it grows and grows until any memory of where we come from is pushed aside by it.
The past becomes distorted in our minds and imagination.
Our mind becomes the only identity we know and along with our ego, we seek to please them solely.
We begin to assume that our mind, ego, emotions, and imagination are all that we are.
Religion is the way our ego has chosen to deal with fear and the unknown.
Imagination is the foundation of many religions, as they cannot guarantee or promise that which they have to offer.
No religion can guarantee salvation, only promise it.
Sounds like a scam doesn’t it?
The process of awakening, which can lead to enlightenment is a gradual process of surrendering the ego.
It is wrong that we have to kill our ego, but we do need to surrender it.
Through surrendering our ego we open ourselves consciously to new horizons within us.
We can begin to intuit new realities and understand ourselves and the universe truthfully.
In this way, we diminish the power of our ego to hold us back from discovering the truth within us.
In this discovery, we find that we do have some control over the fear of death by having learned to surrender our ego and let go of it.
Less ego, less fear of death.
A realization of what exists within us beyond the veil of our ego.
This is what salvation actually means.
Robert.