What Happens When We Die? 2 Powerful Views From “Midnight Mass”
“Midnight mass” is a show with a lot of thought worms and view-changing ideas. This is one that crunched my brain!
One of the reasons for religion and philosophy is to answer this question.
What happens when we die?
People want to be rewarded for their actions! Perhaps that is the reason why ideas that offer a reward for one's actions have the most popularity. I talk here about the idea of Heaven and Hell, reincarnation, and other similar perspectives.
I recently watched “Midnight mass”, a short TV series that presents, in a very interesting way, a lot of very interesting topics. topics like:
- The way power can corrupt.
- Unwanted bad consequences from very good intentions
- The power of religion and belief.
- The dark side of blind obedience.
I just want to write the two images down here, with no input from me. I will create another article with my opinion.
But before that, I want to warn you of spoilers. The following parts contain hints about the storyline of the show.
Riley’s view
When I die … my body stops functioning, shut down. All at once or gradually. My breathing stops, my heart stops beating. Clinical death!
A bit later, like, five-whole minutes later, my brain cells start dying. But in the meantime, in between, maybe my brain releases a flood of DMT, a psychedelic drug released when we sleep.
So, I dream! I dream bigger than I have ever dreamed before because it is all of it. It’s the last dump of DMT. And my neurons are firing, and I am seeing this firework display of memories and imagination and I am just … tripping.
I am really tripping balls because my mind’s rifling through the memories. You know long and short term, and the dreams are mixed with the memories, and it’s a curtain call.
The dream to end all dreams.
One last great dream as my mind empties the fucking missile silos and then …
I stop!
My brain activity ceases and there is nothing left of me. No pain. No memory, no awareness that I ever was. That I ever hurt someone. That I ever killed someone. Everything is as it was before me. And the electricity disperses from my brain till it’s just dead tissue. Meat. Oblivion.
And all of the other little things that make me up, they … microbes and bacterium and the billion other little things that live on my eyelashes and my hair and my mouth and under my skin and in my gut and everywhere else, they just keep on living. And eating.
And I’m serving a purpose. I’m feeding life.
And I am broken apart and all the littlest pieces of me are just recycled, and I’m billions of other places, and my atoms are in plants and bugs and animals, and I am like the stars that are in the sky.
There one moment and then just skittered crossed the god damn cosmos.
Erin’s view
— Speaking for myself?
— Speaking for yourself!
— No! Not for myself. I’m not the one that died today! She was never awake. When she came down into this little body, this … just forming little body, it was asleep.
So all she ever know was dreaming. She only ever dreamed.
She didn’t even have a name. And then in her sleep, that perfect little spirit just lifted up. Because God didn’t send her to suffer through life on Earth, no!
This one? This special little soul? God just sent her down here to sleep. Just a little nap. A quick dream. And then He called her back. He wanted her back. And so she went back.
Same as she floated down, she rose up above the Earth. Passed all the souls in the atmosphere, and all the stars in the sky, and then into a light so bright. And then, for the first time … she starts to wake up.
She’s wrapped in the feeling of love. Just pure, amazing love. Of course, she is. She’s pure! She has never sinned. She never hurt a single living thing. Not even an ant.
And she’s not alone! She’s home! There are people there, and she doesn’t know it, but they’re her family. Her grandfather and her great-grandfather. And they love her. And they name her.
And then when God reaches down and kisses her head, the seconds He says her name, she grows up. In a blink. And she’s perfect. Her body as it would have been on her best day on Earth. Her perfect age. The peak of herself. And they tell her about her mom down here on earth and how I’ll be there soon enough. And she’s happy. And nothing but joy for all eternity.
And she’s loved. And she isn’t alone. And that is what we mean when we say, Heaven.
No mansions, no river of diamonds, or fluffy clouds or angel wings. You are loved. And you aren’t alone. That is God. That is Heaven. And that’s why we endure all that we endure on this big blue sad rock.
I’ll be there soon enough. And I’ll see my father. And my grandmother. And I’ll see my little girl. And she will be happy and safe. And I will be so glad to meet her.
These are two very different views on what happens when we die. I find them both positive and inspiring.
Read them. Feel them. Let them inspire your life with joy, love, and power.
Check out the next part of this mini-series of “What happens when we die?” with the analysis of Riley’s view here:
If you like checking out views on the life you will be interested in this view on life that I have passed to my son:
Or maybe living in the present is something that you feel helps. Then you should read this article:
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