Framese
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I don't know if you're looking for a happy afterlife, but you may consider this stance on Heaven; even though Wikipedia says other thing in general now, when I was growing up, I heard that in Celtic mythology, a fairy ring would take you to a Heaven where fairies lived; and you could be in this place, and keep your body, while you were alive.
I read this other story about how this old traveler who had been everywhere on the planet was laying in a bed, ready to die; and a nun came in; he grabbed her, and said, "show me something, anything."
This is supposed to be a popular issue with very well traveled people. You get to the point where there are few new places to go and stuff to try. I think what the traveler was asking the nun was to share with him the connection she had to the divine, that kept her going. He may have been hoping, however, for a miracle.
A lot of people just never go out of their way to look for divinity. It's seen as being unrealistic, and someone who does so seems to have "their head in the clouds." However an old gay guy in the bible belt said to me, when I asked him for dating advice, "you just have to put yourself out there."
Now, you may be heteroromantic, but I think this is still relevant, if about something other than being gay. He had to believe that something that seemed impossible considering where he lived at was going to occur, and it did. Other old men were all over him whenever I saw him.
That's just like praying for a miracle, which, whenever I pray to be saved from suicide or depression, I feel better almost immediately afterward (of course, I try praying to heavenly figures who may seem to be available to perform one,) or just going out looking for evidence. You have to put yourself out there, because once you've experienced it, you will know how to return to it again and again.
Just consider for a moment if; your goal is a positive afterlife, that you could be alive if you tend your sense of wonder, and really be there. You may be dissatisfied with places you've been that were religious centers, but as a traveler, have you been yet to Tikal or Lalibela? Supposing that there is a remaining lifetime there for you to find out what you're looking for if you're actually there.
On maybe a less mercurial point, I don't know how common it is to find other people who are interested, but when I had a PC, and I lived way out in rural America, I used to play a game where me and my buddies would philosophize about physics involving ancient miracles, such as the Krishna cleaving Saubha in half, and the fairy ring. I loved to play this game at this point because I was competitive about my flamboyant imagination and philosophy (which I often used in place of education.) I had one friend who played who would claim he was an Ivy League student at Harvard, Oxford, or Yale; some such place. We would claim how our characters could fold space or manipulate energy. I would talk over his head sometimes, and he would claim he was going off to talk to his physics professor about it, and told me what he supposedly said. I was nobody; I had no money, and I had dropped out of public education, but I had this friend who respected me greatly and called me one of the best storytelling philosophers. That's just like Fairy Princess (the gay guy) and his bible belt suitors. It may seem impossible that I could have a friend like that, but I just believe that I did.
Now, you don't need to play this kind of game to talk about an entertaining theory, but there's one thing that may tide you over until the truth becomes apparent (and maybe even some kind of monk or nun does this, maybe a Hassidist.)
Just consider how there could be physics behind this maybe bizarre trend of mycopeic vehicular investigation and you may find you have an open mind that allows you to be involved in that study on medical optimism.
Then, you may find that you were looking for it all along, and second guessing your will to live was due to injury that there was an end of. I mean, haven't you ever heard some nerd say, "I'm in pain?" He may seem to be in no physical pain. It could very well be an injury. It may seem that you have this in common with him.
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