什么都不信才是最狭隘的信念 |赛斯智语

Q："The other day Jane and I were talking about people who maintain that the universe is an accident, or that it has no meaning, or that there's no such thing as life after death, or that psychic abilities don't exist—that sort of thing. People who call themselves skeptics, who seem to have a very rigid focus only within what they call physical reality. Those attitudes are very common. Some people have built careers around negative beliefs like that, and Jane and I were wondering how they react after physical death, when they discover that they still live—that they may have spent their professional lives maintaining belief systems which after death they begin to understand are quite wrong. How do they react? Are those individuals even aware of their earlier beliefs ? Do they care what they used to think ? Are they shocked, do they have feelings of regret or embarrassment, or what? Or is there such a variety of responses possible that you can't answer the question simply? And how do such people react after death when they start to get glimmerings about the workings of reincarnation, for example?" 

 A: Well, a tidbit: It is a highly individual matter, so that an overall answer is difficult. Reincarnational patterns apply also. Some people, having lived lives believing in one religious system or another, being completely immersed in them, give themselves shock treatments of sorts, then, living lives in which they believe in nothing, or at least freeing themselves from any beliefs—only to discover, of course, that a belief in nothing is the most confining belief of all. That realization is the eye-opener, in such cases. 

There are those who overrelied upon religious beliefs, using them as crutches, and in later lives then, such people might throw those crutches away overreacting to their new-found "freedom"; and through living lives as meaningless they then realize, after death, that the meaningfulness of existence was after all not dependent upon any religious system. It was there all along, but they had not seen it. 

The variations are endless. On the whole, in the vast scheme of reincarnational reality, a belief in life's meaning is by far the rule, and other excursions are indeed eccentric variations. Specifically, however, such life episodes will of course involve their "moments" of after-death realization—dismay, shock, or what have you. 

——Dreams, “Evaluation,” and Value Fulfillment

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