Relistening to The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience series of lectures. It's fascinating but I question one assumption.
But what does this look like? Where's the separation between 'you'll need this in the afterlife' & 'This is symbolic of who you were.'
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Go to H.sapiens sapiens historical treatment of death. Almost every culture through time has had some concept of the soul.
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I agree with that. I said so. I don't doubt that we have believed this for a very long time.
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If you discover someone buried in a boat in a culture that believed you cross a river to reach Heaven, clear evidence.
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If someone discovers my dog's remains buried with his favourite toy & blanket & assumes I thought he was going somewhere, they'd be wrong.
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The fact that ppl who do believe in an afterlife & ppl who don't both dress their dead smartly & bury them with tokens suggests more to this
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We have to question why they do it when they don't believe in an afterlife. I don't think we would do it without the influence of society.
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Egyptians, Japanese, Chinese, ME, Native North American cultures - independent but had some belief in ancestors still present/afterlife.
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I know. This is not something I mean to deny. I mean exactly what I said and nothing else.
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