This is the title of a short film on You Tube about a 97 year old retired philosophy professor’s thoughts on life and death.
I forwarded this film to some of my family as a jokey referral to what they could expect of me if I get to that age …
By the time I had watched it to the end though I realised what a sad email I had sent. Sad because despite his 40 years as a university philosophy professor and writing many books, this man had never had, or even heard of by the sounds of it, the perennial existence of the mystic experience of Reality that has directed the human race since the beginning of human time. He died still umbilically connected to the human condition, despite MER, the mystical experience of Reality, now being a major worldwide scientific and scholarly study.
Otherwise he would have realised there is a reason for human existence.
Is this a warning about mind deliberately deviating us from Reality by attaching us to merely worldly things?
After all, everything human is mind stuff – made up. Even the professor’s mind was human rather than spiritually focused.
The world as most humans accept it is created by the mind.
The world wouldn’t exist without mind and its appendages … After death the body, brain and mind don’t exist any more anyway, perhaps with one exception.
The one thing that might be an exception is consciousness. My instinct and intuition tells me consciousness is merely a mind reservoir where the mind dumps all its created attachments.
However, there is an eastern concept that the Reality of mystical experiences that is in and rules all things, holds on to consciousness as a way of knowing Itself. But I have no MER experience this is true. On the contrary, my instinct suggests Reality is too big to need, notice or care.
Note: If I seem didactic it is because of my personal MERs. But there is no need for you to heed this essay if you have not experienced its spiritual context yet.
All Is Well.
Mystical Experiences of Reality 