Theories on Afterlife

Theories on Afterlife

There have been many theories, surrounding what happens when someone dies and whether or not there is an afterlife. Films have explored many different ideas of what awaits in the afterlife, some films predict that there is a heaven awaiting like in Ghost, theres the idea that your sole waits on Earth until you have completed a goal like in Sixth Sense, or you could come back as a wacky ghost just like Beetlejuice. However there are some real life theories that discuss whether or not there is in fact a life after death. We are researching this, as the afterlife is a key part of our film which will play a significant role in the story.

Quantum Physics:This idea is a science based hypothesis by Robert Lanza who claims that the theory of biocentrism argues that death is just an illusion. He also stated that life creates the universe, and not the other way round. Due to space and time not existing in the linear fashion like we think it does. The famous double-split experiment is used by him to illustrate his point that if space and time aren't linear, then death can't exist in 'any real sense' either. 

Paganism: A vague, shadowy semiself or ghost survives and goes to the place of the dead, the dark, gloomy Underworld. This is the standard pagan belief. Traces of it can be found even in the Old Testament Jewish notion of 'sheol.' The "ghost" that survives is less alive and is something like a "ghost image" on a TV set: a pale copy of the lost original. 

Reincarnation: The individual soul survives and is reincarnated into another body. Reincarnation is usually connected with the other belief, pantheism, by the notion of karma, in that after the soul has fulfilled its destiny, learned its lessons and become sufficiently enlightened, it reverts to a divine status or is absorbed into the divine All. 

Immortality: The individual soul survives death, yet the body does not. This soul eventually reaches its eternal destiny of either heaven or hell. What survives is an individual, bodiless spirit. This is Platonism, which is often confused with Christianity. 

Resurrection: At death, the soul separates from the body and is reunited at the end of the world to its new, immortal, resurrected body by a divine miracle. This is the Christian view. This view is the only version of life after death in Scripture. It is dimly prophesied and hoped for in the Old Testament.