Breton said:
However I think there might be plenty of OPs who may be quite religious and believe in souls and life after death and be very fervent about it.
However if we look at any religious organization, and let us suppose is made up of half OPs and half of those with higher centers, then I wonder if the depth they experience their own beliefs might have a different flavour between the two groups. Perhaps one is more mechanical in their beliefs, but the other has more of an awareness of "something higher". Anyways, I am just speaking out loud some of my musings on the subject, but I don't claim to know much.
that's a good dose of common sense, Breton, thanks. of course if there are 50% organic portals floating around out there, you'd assume that many of them would be devout christians, mormons, muslims, buddhists, etc. and many probably do have a belief in the their own
immortality. one might suppose there are many people who have beliefs (even those with higher centers) that their own observations/feelings/psychic impulses do not substantiate. so why should it be that someone without higher centers might not, perhaps falsely, assume they have an afterlife?
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