What is your belief about human nature and the afterlife? Human nature is composing of bodies and soul. If you believe in afterlife, then your soul will leave the body and continue on to…
The conclusion drawn by Keith Hess in “Sure It’s Aliiiive, but Does It have a Sooooul?” is that we are non-physical beings. He best proves this point when saying that the Monster recreated its self to have a better body, much like our bodies do every day with the breakdown, repair and creation of new cells. In the third section of this paper, I argue that the author is correct and that we as humans or monsters are non-physical beings.…
In the Hindu religion every living being has a soul and a position on the circle of life. After death the soul is…
There are countless religions around the world with different views of ghosts or spirits. Christianity, the most common religion followed, believes that ghosts are not spirits of deceased bodies or angels of the Lord. They are believed to be followers of the underworld, demonic angels that rise to earth and deceive humans and alter their knowledge of the Christian message. It is stated in the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians…
4. The examination of body fluids and organs for drugs and poisons is a function of the ____ unit.…
There is a strong relation, throughout history, between religion as a belief, and the idea of ghosts as a part of this belief. Some ethnic groups believe in spirits and they do some religious rituals as a way of getting closer to the souls of the ancestors and satisfying them. Native American believes in reincarnation of their ancestor's souls. Also, Tlingit ethnic groups in Alaska and other ethnic groups in Australia and Africa believe in reincarnation. This relates to our subject through the idea of transportation of spirit, as invisible thing, to another creature or inanimate being and they can contact with them through some rites. The faith of hidden forces, believing in the supernatural, reincarnation, soul restriction, soul liberty or…
From a biblical standpoint of view it tells us that we come from God and that our personality is mostly spiritual since Adam had no life until God breathed into him and we likewise. When people die the body is lifeless and is returned to the ground. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities believe in the God of heaven (who is a Spirit, John 4:24) and that we took our personalities from him. On the flip side of that Satan worshipers believe that Satan (who is a spirit) is greater than God and they devoutly worship him and are lead by his Principalities, Power and Rulers in their everyday life. That seems to be about or close to half of the world’s population which believes that a spirit being controls their mind, will, and emotions. This informs us of where (I believe) we come from and where our personalities come from.…
Generally, many Native Americans do not have a set idea about life after death, but some believe in reincarnation as humans, ghosts, animals or a combination of these…
Some people believe in life after death because there is evidence of post or near death experiences:…
It is rational to accept the Buddhist view of an afterlife; it is both consistent and coherent. Physically, reincarnation and nirvana make sense due to the belief that energy cannot be created or destroyed. When a body dies, the energy that kept the body alive must go somewhere, therefore a transfer of the energy into new life is plausible. Though many say that laws of physics would need to be re-written if reincarnation were true, using science to explain the soul is impractical, if not impossible. The soul has been brought up in many aspects of…
A common belief among many groups of American Indians is when a member of their tribe passes, their soul passes on into the spirit world. They believe that they will still be able to communicate with their loved one through dreams or through the intercession of medicine people (Handbook of Patients’ Spiritual, 2013). Some tribes believe the land of the afterlife is more structured with a higher being ruling over the souls that have passed on. A less common belief, but one that is still predominant in some tribes, is the belief that the dead pass on and become part of the earth if their bodies are not disturbed from peace.…
The concepts of animism and numinous is a contrast between spirituality and human experience. The concepts are relative to the concept of spirituality with no definitive distinction between sacred and secular in the Paleolithic culture. The difference between animism and numinous is that animism is the spiritual belief that there is a soul in everything. Numinous belief is more of a feeling through experience. The two terms are used independently to help explain the artifacts and myths in the Paleolithic culture.…
In American culture, we treat death as being placed in the ground. As a society, we do not believe in ghosts, spirits or our ancestors coming to visit us from beyond the grave. This is, however, the belief of the…
First I am going to give a little bit of overview about how people other than myself feel about death and what they think death really is. “The word death comes from Old English deað, which in turn comes from Proto-Germanic *dauþaz (reconstructed by etymological analysis). This comes from the Proto-Indo-European stem *dheu- meaning the 'Process, act, condition of dying'.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death) There are also said to be many different processes that actually consider someone dead. Physiological death is seen as a process not just an event. In this process there is a dividing line between life and death that depends on factors beyond the presence or absence of vital signs. Clinical death is not necessary or sufficient for a determination of legal death. Someone that has a working heart and lungs determined to be brain dead can be pronounced legally dead without clinical death occurring. The medical definition of death becomes more problematic, paradoxically, as scientific knowledge and medicine advance. There are also different signs of death or strong indications that a person is no longer alive such as cessation of breathing, cardiac arrest, pallor mortis, livor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, and decomposition. Cardiac arrest is having no pulse, pallor mortis is paleness which happens in the 15-120 minutes after death, livor mortis is a settling of the blood in the lower portion of the body, algor mortis is the reduction in body…
Animism is the belief that non human entities such as animals, plants of inanimate object possess souls.…