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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do.  Not in the Christian teaching of Heaven/Hell, but I believe our psychic energy persists in some manner.   I think there is so much that we can't understand or explain, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.[/quote]

I agree with this. As Einstein said, energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another. I believe energy persists after death, and that our spirit just returns to being one with the universe. Same thing with matter - neither created nor destroyed, but returned to the living Earth or ocean, to persist forever in some form.

So, yes, I am a kook and that's okay.[/quote]

I guess folks are free to believe whatever they want, but this article addresses the common pseudo-scientific notions of energy persisting after death.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/05/23/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/

The gist:

Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there’s no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.

Lots of people who don't understand quantum mechanics try to bring that into the discussion, but it's just not relevant.  Sorry.[/quote]

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