/lit/ - Literature

Contemplation. Finding time alone, and thinking. This changed me from Christian to atheist at age 12, then into something else entirely.

I also had a few mystical experiences that changed my perspective. By that, I mean there were odd occurrences both within me and without that changed my thinking. Some of these were induced by hallucinogenic drugs, some weren't.

Science can't explain consciousness, or what happens to it when a body dies. The most common belief is nonbeing, but that never sat well with me, because you were in a state of nonbeing before you were born, and then you were born. I think reincarnation is most likely. I also think there are lower and higher tiers of existence. And if time is truly spatial, then everything you do is preserved behind you like a footstep in mud, so a post-life judgement by a higher life form isn't unthinkable to me.