Life After Death

Introduction

The question of the extension or the annihilation of consciousness after death is old. The origin and nature of consciousness are the subject of controversy and the state of consciousness after death is not a subject of study of European research centers using the scientific method. In contrast, the United States, University of Arizona has a scientific research laboratory of life after death, whose motto is: If true, this will be discovered, if this is false, we will find why it is wrong. Today as then, there are many assumptions, beliefs or evidence on this issue. Knowledge that studies the fate of the soul after death is called "individual eschatology". Eschatos in Greek means "last" and logos meaning "study". Eschatology is the doctrine concerning the last things, the final time, either of the individual after his death (individual eschatology), or of humanity to its extinction (eschatology human) or the world to its demise (cosmic eschatology).

This paper will take ideas and concepts discussed in the book 'Beyond Death: Theological and Philosophical Reflections on Life After Death' written by Cohn-Sherbok and Lewis, Christopher. The book is about the life of an individual that comes to him after his death, which is also known as an afterlife. The paper will present the different theological and philosophical aspects that have been highlighted in the book related to the concept of life after death.

Discussion

Although subject to criticism, a monumental documentation addresses this question for centuries. There may be studies ethnological, theses religious about the hereafter, or demonstrations philosophical. Various traditions and schools of thought have also produced a mass of documents such as shamanism, the Lamaism the spiritualism, the blavatskienne Theosophy, or Anthroposophy. Finally, each year brings new evidence concerning events of the deceased or to experience near-death. Currently, scientific research does virtually no work undertaken to determine the status of an individual consciousness after death. Therefore, knowledge in this area is, nowadays, embryonic (Cohn-Sherbok, Lewis, et al, p. 68-75).

All civilizations, from prehistory, have left traces of belief in an existence of life after death, each with its own perception of the immortality of the spirit, the reward of souls and the meaning of life. Thus the beliefs in the survival of the soul, as far as respect for the dead, are the source of the various funeral rites. The existence of life after death is a question made ??by mankind universally. Job spoke for us all when asked, "Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, out like a flower and is cut off, and flees like a shadow and does not stay if a man dies, does he go on live". Like Job, nearly all of us have been challenged by this question. What exactly happens after we die? Do we simply exist? Is life a revolving door of which rises and returns to earth in order to achieve personal greatness? Are they all the same place, or go to different places? Is there really a heaven and ...