Roller Coaster

The ride to the top of the roller coaster gives you time to consider the wisdom of the rollar coaster ride.  Perhaps it was a bad decision, that the coaster will break down and you will end up maimed.  Then you remember that thousands of people have ridden the coaster before you and they are safe.

Compare the coaster to the journey toward death.  Similar situaton, you're afraid of the unknown.  But when you realize that billions of others have taken the journey you have, then perhaps you don't feel so special or scared.  They took the ride, and persumably they made it.  All of those lives preceeded you.  Whatever happens next happens to everyone.

Worm food?  That's my guess.  I think I like this idea best because if I can be okay with it, then if anything else does happen, it is pleasant supprise.

Heaven?  Do you go to heaven? What does that mean?  How much baggage do you bring with?  Do you leave your baggage (the emotional drives that make you who you are) here?  If you do leave it, are you still you without it?  Do those with too much baggage go to Hell?  But if you are not you without your baggage, then does it matter who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell?  Wouldn't we all be the same? If you bring your baggage with are you in Heaven Is that what you talk about to other spirits when you get there?

Reincarnation has the same problem.  What good is reincarnating if your next incarnation doesn't remember who it is.  In this case birth and reincarnation mean the same thing...  Unless there is a heaven between incarnations, then reincarnation may be useful as a learning tool.  If this is the case, I'd wager that you are 'there' right now, but you are looking through 'your' eyes and listening with 'your' ears...  Maybe our lives are like movies, and our death the intermission when 'they' change the reals.

Whatever happens, I take some comfort in knowing that others have taken the journey before me and the machinary didn't break down when they took the trip -- or maybe it does from time to time, do we put too much faith in the mechanics of the spiritual universe?