"Nothing is so important to man as his state: nothing more fearful than eternity. Thus the fact that there exist men who are indifferent to the loss of their being and peril of an eternity of wretchedness is against nature. With everything else they are quite different. they fear the most trifling things, foresee and feel them; and the same man who spends so many days and nights in fury and despair at losing some office or at some-imaginary affront to his honor is the very one who knows that he is going to lose everything through death but feels neither anxiety nor emotion. It is a monstrous thing to see one and the same heart once so sensitive to minor things and so strangely insensitive to the greatest. An inevitable death, which threatens us at every moment, must infallibly in a few years face us with the inescapable and appalling alternative of being annihilated or wretched for all eternity." Pensees 427, 432

According to many spiritual schools, I am supposed to be an immortal spiritual being.

 

However I have no certainty about it.

 

According to my own experiences, I have never had any communication with the souls of my deceased parents.

So that is quite difficult to believe that they are still alive in some place.

There is some semblance of a nothingness after death.

 

So the primary target is to solve this issue of death, as if that is is not solved, everything else is done in vain.

At that point I differ from Pascal: when Pascal decided to follow blindly the Catholic Church, I am looking for a knowledge, a technique which could be used to solve this semblance of total destruction of everything that occurs at death.

 

So I see the study of the spiritual realm as a way to evaluate my chances to solve this issue.

This web site itself is part of this attempt to overcome death, as if beyond the death of my body nothing is left, there will be anyway some traces left on the Internet, possible for the centuries to come, depending on the performances of the archival system of the internet.

 

Version 5
April 26, 2009

• According to Buddhism, the goal of man is happiness
• According to Dianetics, the goal of man is survival
• According to Scientology, the goal of man is the willingness to be cause

Eventually I prefer the Buddhist view. Survival is possibly the purpose of plants and animals, but man seems to be motivated more by happiness than by survival. For example there are many examples of people who prefer to die when they suffer too much, or who choose to experience the pleasure of smoking when they know that they are endangering their life.

As far as I am concerned, this basic purpose of happiness involves a set of intermediate goals.