Question…What is the one thing that everyone knows about with absolute certainty but is almost never discussed? When sometimes it is brought up it is quickly dismissed because while it is accepted that while others are affected by it ‘I’ as an individual will not have to worry about it well into the foreseeable future. The answer of course is ‘death’ or our own mortality.
Most people turn the whole topic over to ‘religion’ and simply choose to believe in whatever structure they were taught as children. It comes down to a kind of ‘double think’ arrangement as in the excellent novel ‘1984’ written by George Orwell in 1948 about a futuristic society where the government is in complete control of the population via surveillance. “Yes we will all die one day but we won’t cease to exist!”
So my next question is…What topic is likely to rule the science fiction genre? I put it to you that any story that raises possibilities and the means for people to survive death must be of universal interest. This includes time travel stories because these allow for the existence of alternate realities and the chance to correct life changing mistakes. Central to it all is some kind of ‘afterlife’ existence either in material or spiritual form which allows our consciousness to survive.
Ironically there exits and enormous amount of evidence to support the theory that life is eternal and that death is just a transition to another level of existence. Conversely there is absolutely no evidence to support the ‘nothing at all’ hypothesis. The evidence for the afterlife is readily available and I have collected a great deal of it and made it available via my website at www.afterlifenovels.com and all my stories are based on it.
Most people turn the whole topic over to ‘religion’ and simply choose to believe in whatever structure they were taught as children. It comes down to a kind of ‘double think’ arrangement as in the excellent novel ‘1984’ written by George Orwell in 1948 about a futuristic society where the government is in complete control of the population via surveillance. “Yes we will all die one day but we won’t cease to exist!”
So my next question is…What topic is likely to rule the science fiction genre? I put it to you that any story that raises possibilities and the means for people to survive death must be of universal interest. This includes time travel stories because these allow for the existence of alternate realities and the chance to correct life changing mistakes. Central to it all is some kind of ‘afterlife’ existence either in material or spiritual form which allows our consciousness to survive.
Ironically there exits and enormous amount of evidence to support the theory that life is eternal and that death is just a transition to another level of existence. Conversely there is absolutely no evidence to support the ‘nothing at all’ hypothesis. The evidence for the afterlife is readily available and I have collected a great deal of it and made it available via my website at www.afterlifenovels.com and all my stories are based on it.