Two types of people are there.
One that is strongly identified with the perception of this world through five sense organs. They don't have any doubts about the material reality of this existence as they feel it and as they know it. They do not believe in it unless it is proven by perception of hearing, tasting, smelling, seeing and touching. Sensory pleasures are the only source of happiness for them. When the sense organs are dissolved completely at death, that is it; they are not ready to accept anything more than that.
The second group is those who happened to have gone to the edges of this realm of perception. They have already peeped into the mystery of the unknown. Whether it was blissful or not, they have felt it and that is the reason they believe in it. They have crossed a threshold. A near death experience or a similar intense one changed their lives for good, or early on they had that ability to look beyond. If it was a passing fancy or curious case of sensations, it would not have changed them. Some profound process has already started within them. It can be felt in their presence.
The ones from the first group may move into the second at times, but ones from the second group moving back to the first seem almost impossible. If anyone is in a predicament of moving between the two, either they would squander their lives or they would become masters who skillfully able to integrate the two groups.
photo-graphics: 'lake texoma' /aug.3 /sebastian©2009
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