Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize

[Lucas Oliveira]

just a few side effects that already exist today and that could be resolved with more knowledge about Kamma, Heaven, Hell, Rebirth, Samsara and Nibbana.

The Discovery (film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_(film)

[Lucas Oliveira]

Surviving Death | Official Trailer | Netflix


What does it mean to die, and is death the end of our existence? Weaving together innovative new research with firsthand accounts from those who’ve been close to—and even experienced—death, this series takes viewers on an extraordinary journey into a world beyond human existence as we know it.

[SteRo]

"Surviving death"

[Lucas Oliveira]

Overwhelming response to BICS life after death contest

After two weeks, Las Vegas space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow’s new venture, the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS), has seen an overwhelming response of applications to enter a global essay contest.

https://www.mysterywire.com/mysteries/o ... h-contest/

[SteRo]

Since 'letting go of life' isn't the common motive much energy may be put into fabrications of afterlife.

[Lucas Oliveira]

Verse 168. The Righteous Are Happy - Here And Hereafter

Rouse yourself, be diligent,
in Dhamma faring well.
Who dwells in Dhamma’s happy
in this birth and the next.



Explanation: Wake up to reality; do not be delude. Live in accordance with reality. The realistic person lives happily in this world and in the next.


Verse 178. Being Stream-Winner Is Supreme

Than o’er the earth sole sovereignty,
than going to heaven,
than lordship over all the worlds:
better the Steam-winner’s fruit.



Explanation: The achievement of the stream-winner is the primary stage in the attainment of spiritual success. The state is greater than being a universal monarch, or reaching heaven.

http://www.buddhanet.net/dhammapada/d_world.htm

[SteRo]

Explanation: Wake up to reality; do not be delude. Live in accordance with reality. The realistic person lives happily in this world and in the next.

Since one can only live happily in this world it is realistic to focus on that and not fabricate another future world.

On the other hand the uncommon motive may be to let go of life as such and to experience the happiness resulting from that, neither in this nor in any fabricated future life.

[Lucas Oliveira]

Report on this contest on Brazilian TV..

Bilionário americano oferece R$ 3 milhões para quem apresentar evidências de vida após a morte

Prêmio de concurso inusitado é apenas uma parte do que Robert Bigelow já gastou nos últimos 30 anos com pesquisas sobre fenômenos paranormais, buscas por vida extraterrestre e projetos espaciais.

https://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia ... orte.ghtml

After this report, the contest website was down

http://www.bigelowinstitute.org/

[johnsmitty]

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And what is undeclared by me? ... 'The soul & the body are the same'... 'The soul is one thing and the body another'...


Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta

You're confusing nephesh with psuche. Soul sometimes means life-force and sometimes immaterial mind. It could be said in Buddhism jiva is nephesh and citta is psuche.

[cappuccino]

You're confusing nephesh with psuche.

Nephesh is a Biblical Hebrew word

[johnsmitty]

You're confusing nephesh with psuche.

Nephesh is a Biblical Hebrew word

right. In OT soul is just life force and in NT is immaterial mind. When the sutta says it can't tell if jiva and body are same or different it means if life force and body are same or different. Because obviously immaterial mind, citta, is different from body.

[cappuccino]

obviously immaterial mind, citta, is different from body.

I accept the soul


yet there are many views


which I can't figure out

[Lucas Oliveira]

Thanks for submitting applications to the BICS Essay Contest. Due to the very large number of applications received just prior to the February 28 deadline, BICS will be processing applications for the next few days. If you have NOT heard from us by March 5, 2021, your application has been unsuccessful

https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/

[Coëmgenu]

End the counting of the mail-in essays!

This is a frivolous joke that can be deleted without objection if it rubs anyone the wrong way.

[cappuccino]

when I was young, I met a ghost, with several others…


we were gathered in a field, near an abandoned house…


she was suddenly among us, spoke to us, then she vanished…


three decades later, I heard she was haunting a house…


the same description of the ghost…


when I heard, that confirmed what we suspected about her