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Originally Posted by skinnyninja  My greatest fear is of non-existence; of oblivion. I cannot shake it.
To sit and contemplate oblivion--the possibility of my consciousness no longer existing--that is truly crushing. This idea first occurred to me when I was quite young. And now, many years later, after all of my spiritual pursuits, I still have the same fear. Still dying every day.
I want to believe--in order to alleviate my fear--but so far, nothing has produced that leap of faith. |
Sometimes beautiful images and touchy music can tell a lot more than words. So, I`ll just recommend you to see "The Fountain".
I think many people contemplate this void, this emptiness, and feel depressed and sometimes nihilistic because they feel separate from this infiniteness. What if you try to connect with this and become as boundless as this void?
If you think this could be empowering, maybe some zen and taoist reading could help.
Carlos Castañeda´s books talk a lot about death, too. The toltec shamanic teaching is that death is the wisest adviser and ally of the seeker of thuths. Whenever you feel sad and hopelessness, or too important and arrogant, or even drowned in the self pity sea, death has a very good advice to move you forward: there´s no time to waste with this things.