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On July 17, 1793, a woman named Charlotte Corday was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, a radical journalist, politician and revolutionary. Marat was well-liked for his ideas and the mob awaiting the guillotine was eager to see Corday pay. After the blade dropped and Corday's head fell, one of the executioner's assistants picked it up and slapped its cheek. According to witnesses, Corday's eyes turned to look at the man and her face changed to an expression of indignation. Following this incident, people executed by guillotine during the Revolution were asked to blink afterward, and witnesses claim that the blinking occurred for up to 30 seconds.

Countless similar claims have been documented throughout the ages by average individuals to workers in the medical profession.

Medical science indicates that the brain can remain active for 3 - 6 minutes after death. Some professionals believe that the brain remains active for 10+ minutes and experiences a surge of activity immediately after death.

Dreams -

Most dreams last between a few seconds to 20 seconds. However, in dreams we have a completely different perception of time. Days, weeks, or perhaps a lifetime may occur within a 5 second dream.

I believe that Heaven and Hell exist within us. It isn't a realm in the "clouds" or somewhere in deep space. Heaven and Hell are as real as the air we breath and the dirt we stand upon, but it is much closer than we allow ourselves to believe.

Perception-

Perception is reality, no debate. Most people believe that "real life" is what we see and feel while the dreamscape is a false reality. But, one must consider that when we die, when our hearts have stopped beating, our new reality will be our final experience within our brains during the 3 - 10 minutes surge of activity that will occur.

The final 3 - 10 minute brain activity is more than enough time to experience eternity within a dreamscape. If we can experience a lifetime within a five second dream, imagine what we can experience during 10 minutes of surge activity! It is no stretch to consider that the human brain is wired with an "end of life" experience to allow the individual a smoother (or perhaps punishable) transition from life to death. Make no mistake: The intense love, joy, or pain that we may experience within this dreamscape will indeed be our reality at that moment.

What happens when brain activity ceases and the organ decomposes? My theory. Humans are made up of the universe. At the atomic level, we are the universe. When we die, we don't cease to exist. Quite the contrary. At the atomic level, we will continue to exist forever.

Therefore, our very essence will continue to be an eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, which opens the door for reincarnation. If our essence at the atomic level becomes a part of new life, there's no reason to believe that a sliver of a former life can't continue on.

Cellular Memory -

There have been several documented reports by medical professionals that individuals who received transplants, especially heart transplants, have awakened after surgery and muttered the name of the deceased organ donor, even though the patient had no connection to the donor.

Some medical professionals believe that conscience exists at the cellular level. They point to the fact that much is still unknown about RNA, the biological molecules that perform multiple vital roles in the coding, decoding, regulation, and expression of genes. After all, RNA is responsible for gene heredity, which could be explained as gene memory transmitted from life to life.

Therefore, if we connect the dots, one can argue that we will not only experience one afterlife but instead many, that our essence, even slivers of past memories or perhaps our conscience, can be transmitted from life to life (reincarnation), and our essense will in fact exist forever.

God, angels, and demons exists within each of us and rule the network of energy that we all are wired thru our physical composition of universal elements. We are all capable of truly great things just as we are all capable of incredible evil. Sometimes we unleash these forces by choice. Sometimes we accidentally tap into this realm deep within our brains. Other times the human body can experience a glitch that unleashes these forces in spite of the individual's will.

When this happens, the experience becomes the reality.

Louis, the doctor in the classic horror movie Jacob's Ladder, said it best:

“The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn 'em all away. But they're not punishing you,' he said. 'They're freeing your soul. If your frightened of dying, and your holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.”

This post was edited on 2/17/14 at 1:15 am