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Are We In Purgatory?

Thoughts in the Clouds

I was just watching an episode of "Scrubs." The episode had me thinking about death afterward. It is an occurrence that we do not fully understand. Yes, our bodies cease to function and everyone dies, but what of our consciousness? Do we exist outside of this realm until we reincarnated? Could our previous experiences manifest themselves through our creativity and our fears? Dreams feel real because of what we have already learned and know. 

Perhaps this is purgatory that we exist in. And maybe our consciousness is linked to our soul. We exist and live individually, but are joined by our shared experience of this existence. Universally, we come and we go, we live and we die.


Are we judged by our actions in this life for another one? People are taught to believe so in different ways. There is a "good" and a "bad" that extends beyond our basic living. Christianity says that we are all born with sin, so they administer baptisms. I do not believe this. It is widely believed that babies and children are innocent, so how can they also be born with sin? They know nothing except what they are taught. They are blank slates. Neutral. There are rules for governing societies and groups. Some are communal. Some have a hierarchy. If we break certain rules, we are considered "bad." Yet, without these rules, our basic need is to survive and live. It does not fit into a category of "good" or "bad." So what happens if a person simply lives? How is this person judged? The person maintained his/ her basic function for as long as they could but did not step into a category of "good" or "bad."


We are born into this pre-existing place. We have researched and recorded and know it has existed for a long time. People have come and gone. And after this life ends, we enter a new one. This afterlife is explained in different ways; heaven, hell, reincarnation. But we do not know. We are taught to believe. We are taught to have faith, but we do not know. I have questioned this and it is described as something that is not tangible. It can be euphoric or hell, literally. And yet, people are born in this world with memories of a pre-existing one. Deja vu is a common phenomenon among people. Children learn faster and faster. Why can this not be linked to a pre-existence, a former life? We share the same DNA at its core, code that is replicated as we reproduce.


I concede that a higher power exists, but I will not pretend to understand it. So many have died trying. I simply do not know and am content with that. Our consciousness may cease or it may move on and exist in another realm but I do not know. I can only know by what I am experiencing now, just as everyone else. Right now, this consciousness is all I know.

What do you think?

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