Independent Press Award
2024 winner
The Afterlife Experience - How Our Association With Nature's Elements Shapes the Outcome
Bud Megargee
Throughout human history the desire to explore an afterlife requires that we critically bend the way that we think. A time when there is only one question - what really happens when this life ends?
Traditionally, our next world experiences are fixed in philosophical understandings or time-honored religious beliefs. Any challenge to these options requires that we find the private moments when we are allowed to become unbiased and fearless.
The Afterlife Experience - How Our Association with Nature's Elements Shapes the Outcome suggests something outside cautious thinking. It recommends that for one moment, we try to imagine something that lay beyond what we have individually embraced. That we explore unorthodox ideas freely and without historical convictions.To try and imagine a time when we can investigate unusual information without ignorance, desire, or aversion. It asks that we not turn our back on the influence of nature's elements in determining our current existence or any expected afterlife path that we travel.
There are few times in our existence when we are asked to become adventerous. The Afterlife Experience is one of those moments.