what awaits us in the great beyond
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
wildest ideas about life after death
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the most creative ideas about the
afterlife as explored in myths religion
and philosophy number 10 doo-wat a
perilous journey even after death the
souls troubles might not be over
according to ancient Egyptians the soul
descended to an underworld called Duat
and embarked on a journey fraught with
peril
the famous Book of the Dead along with
other similar texts provided insight and
guidance as to how one could overcome
these post-mortem obstacles which
included demons and monsters
at the end of the road the soul or heart
was weighed against a feather and
depending on the outcome that soul
became either a midnight snack for a
meat devour of the souls or was allowed
to move on to our ooh the field of reeds
number 9 our consciousness will continue
in other universes you Eleanor shall
strop are dead your life on earth has
ended and you are now in the next phase
of your existence in the universe
another belief is that we never really
die at all doctor and medical researcher
Robert Lanza argues in biocentrism that
our current scientific worldview
is all wrong consciousness creates the
cosmos not the other way around he
points to the role of the observer and
quantum mechanics to propose that we
generate our own reality in this theory
of everything there may be many
universes some of which will include
other versions of ourselves
death Lanza claims is therefore just an
illusion our consciousness will always
exist
through the infinite universes of the
multiverse I’m frightened let’s go love
it number eight ralien cloning one day
we’ll all shuffle off this mortal coil
but according to the members of the UFO
religion realism this doesn’t mean we
won’t get a brand new one now we are
entering the time of Science and
Technology and it’s good
their leader former sports car
journalist Claude volume also known as
Rael advocates human cloning and mind
transfer as a means to eternal life in
fact an Associated company clonaid
claimed to have cloned the world’s first
human back in 2002 in the meantime
Rayleigh and baptism involves sending an
initiate cinetic information to an
extraterrestrial supercomputer
preserving them for cloning in the
future here a target on a cloud that’s
slightly troubling number seven all
existence ends was nothing real doom in
Lewis Carroll’s novel through the
looking-glass Alice is told that she’s
part of the dream of the slumbering Red
King when he wakes up she will flicker
out like a candle if that egg King was
to wake up now he disappeared it’s a
clever allusion to idealism and a
problem of other minds how do we know
that other people and the outside world
really exist
our only direct experience is of our own
mind one extreme solution is
metaphysical solipsism the belief that
only the self actually exists but this
means that when the self dies the whole
universe will die too extinguished like
a candle number six different
destinations for different deaths every
sandwich you ate every time you bought a
magazine every single thing you did had
an effect that rippled out over time and
ultimately created some amount of good
or
our good deaths rewarded in some Norse
sources those who died in battle go to
either the Hall Valhalla
or the field folk banger while others
descend to the underworld the Aztecs
believed that slain warriors and victims
of sacrifice accompany the deity of the
Sun as it rose while women who died
during childbirth followed the Sun as
its set those who drowned were struck by
lightning or died from certain diseases
ascended to claw Loken a paradise of
eternal spring but people who suffered
ordinary deaths were consigned to meet
LUN an underworld of nine levels in
which the soul had to make an arduous
trek downward past crashing mountains
and hungry jaguars number five
rebirth also known as reincarnation as a
child james r Leininger was obsessed
with planes until he began to have
nightmares about a plane crash he
claimed to remember taking off from a
boat called Natoma and being shot down
over yo Jima he even named someone else
on the boat Jack Larsen it turns out
that all these details matched a real
pilot also named James the idea of
reincarnation was popular in Pythagorean
and platonic schools of thought and
remains widespread in Eastern religions
our lives are not our own from womb to
tomb we are bound to others Hinduism and
Buddhism teach that depending on our
Karma we might come back as an animal
God or ghost
Jainism allows that we might even return
as a plant
number four a digital afterlife reycarts
while futurist and director of
engineering at Google claims that in a
few decades we’ll be able to upload our
minds into the cloud and live forever in
fact according to Swedish philosopher
Nick Bostrom we may already be living
inside a simulation incredible boström
argues that if future civilizations are
likely to create digital simulations of
their ancestors there will probably be
more simulated people than real people
therefore it’s reasonable to assume that
we’re actually simulations if we’re a
simulation of an actual historical
ancestor we are in one sense already
dead
at least in the real world what ciao
skis eat your heart out how do they know
that the real world isn’t just another
simulation do you well I know I’m not
dreaming now because I know what it’s
like being in a dream
so dreaming lets you know reality exists
just in my mind exists number three the
shin bat bridge also known as bridge of
the requite er founded by iranian
prophet Zoroaster over three thousand
years ago the summer last rien ism is
big on the whole reward and punishment
in the afterlife thing after death the
soul ends up at the shin bat bridge
which extends into heaven for you but
only if you’ve been more good than bad
bridges the connect worlds feature in
many stories both mythological and
modern but the shin bat bridge is
distinct in that it narrows for the
wicked throwing them down into the House
of Lies and widens for those who follow
truth and order leading them to the
house of song which would you choose
number two the eternal return
[Music]
if time is infinite all possible events
will occur over and over again this
would leave us trapped in a kind of
infinite loop forced to repeat our
actions again and again reliving the
exact same life as well as all possible
variations I’m reliving the same day
over and over the idea of eternal
recurrence ought to German philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche who felt it was both
the heaviest of burdens and something we
have to embrace in order to affirm our
lives in modern times it’s been used to
explain our sense of deja vu it’s hard
to know what to hope for while eternal
recurrence makes our lives and history
unbearably heavy the opposite idea
leaves our lives light but fleeting
number one underground river ride in his
dialogue the Phaedo Plato has Socrates
recount a detailed myth about the
afterlife the earth Socrates explains is
much faster than we think
overhead is a pure earth and below our
hollow spaces through which subterranean
rivers pass in and out when we die we’re
guided underground to be judged the
ordinary are sent to the asphodel
Meadows the mediocre sailed to the a
kuru Xion lake to be punished and
absolved the evil are cast into Tartarus
a deep abyss of judgment and torment
it’s the Splash Mountain of the soul
which only the pure pass over ascending
to higher worlds some without bodies to
places of indescribable beauty
[Music]
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these other great clips from WatchMojo
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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
wildest ideas about life after death
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the most creative ideas about the
afterlife as explored in myths religion
and philosophy number 10 doo-wat a
perilous journey even after death the
souls troubles might not be over
according to ancient Egyptians the soul
descended to an underworld called Duat
and embarked on a journey fraught with
peril
the famous Book of the Dead along with
other similar texts provided insight and
guidance as to how one could overcome
these post-mortem obstacles which
included demons and monsters
at the end of the road the soul or heart
was weighed against a feather and
depending on the outcome that soul
became either a midnight snack for a
meat devour of the souls or was allowed
to move on to our ooh the field of reeds
number 9 our consciousness will continue
in other universes you Eleanor shall
strop are dead your life on earth has
ended and you are now in the next phase
of your existence in the universe
another belief is that we never really
die at all doctor and medical researcher
Robert Lanza argues in biocentrism that
our current scientific worldview
is all wrong consciousness creates the
cosmos not the other way around he
points to the role of the observer and
quantum mechanics to propose that we
generate our own reality in this theory
of everything there may be many
universes some of which will include
other versions of ourselves
death Lanza claims is therefore just an
illusion our consciousness will always
exist
through the infinite universes of the
multiverse I’m frightened let’s go love
it number eight ralien cloning one day
we’ll all shuffle off this mortal coil
but according to the members of the UFO
religion realism this doesn’t mean we
won’t get a brand new one now we are
entering the time of Science and
Technology and it’s good
their leader former sports car
journalist Claude volume also known as
Rael advocates human cloning and mind
transfer as a means to eternal life in
fact an Associated company clonaid
claimed to have cloned the world’s first
human back in 2002 in the meantime
Rayleigh and baptism involves sending an
initiate cinetic information to an
extraterrestrial supercomputer
preserving them for cloning in the
future here a target on a cloud that’s
slightly troubling number seven all
existence ends was nothing real doom in
Lewis Carroll’s novel through the
looking-glass Alice is told that she’s
part of the dream of the slumbering Red
King when he wakes up she will flicker
out like a candle if that egg King was
to wake up now he disappeared it’s a
clever allusion to idealism and a
problem of other minds how do we know
that other people and the outside world
really exist
our only direct experience is of our own
mind one extreme solution is
metaphysical solipsism the belief that
only the self actually exists but this
means that when the self dies the whole
universe will die too extinguished like
a candle number six different
destinations for different deaths every
sandwich you ate every time you bought a
magazine every single thing you did had
an effect that rippled out over time and
ultimately created some amount of good
or
our good deaths rewarded in some Norse
sources those who died in battle go to
either the Hall Valhalla
or the field folk banger while others
descend to the underworld the Aztecs
believed that slain warriors and victims
of sacrifice accompany the deity of the
Sun as it rose while women who died
during childbirth followed the Sun as
its set those who drowned were struck by
lightning or died from certain diseases
ascended to claw Loken a paradise of
eternal spring but people who suffered
ordinary deaths were consigned to meet
LUN an underworld of nine levels in
which the soul had to make an arduous
trek downward past crashing mountains
and hungry jaguars number five
rebirth also known as reincarnation as a
child james r Leininger was obsessed
with planes until he began to have
nightmares about a plane crash he
claimed to remember taking off from a
boat called Natoma and being shot down
over yo Jima he even named someone else
on the boat Jack Larsen it turns out
that all these details matched a real
pilot also named James the idea of
reincarnation was popular in Pythagorean
and platonic schools of thought and
remains widespread in Eastern religions
our lives are not our own from womb to
tomb we are bound to others Hinduism and
Buddhism teach that depending on our
Karma we might come back as an animal
God or ghost
Jainism allows that we might even return
as a plant
number four a digital afterlife reycarts
while futurist and director of
engineering at Google claims that in a
few decades we’ll be able to upload our
minds into the cloud and live forever in
fact according to Swedish philosopher
Nick Bostrom we may already be living
inside a simulation incredible boström
argues that if future civilizations are
likely to create digital simulations of
their ancestors there will probably be
more simulated people than real people
therefore it’s reasonable to assume that
we’re actually simulations if we’re a
simulation of an actual historical
ancestor we are in one sense already
dead
at least in the real world what ciao
skis eat your heart out how do they know
that the real world isn’t just another
simulation do you well I know I’m not
dreaming now because I know what it’s
like being in a dream
so dreaming lets you know reality exists
just in my mind exists number three the
shin bat bridge also known as bridge of
the requite er founded by iranian
prophet Zoroaster over three thousand
years ago the summer last rien ism is
big on the whole reward and punishment
in the afterlife thing after death the
soul ends up at the shin bat bridge
which extends into heaven for you but
only if you’ve been more good than bad
bridges the connect worlds feature in
many stories both mythological and
modern but the shin bat bridge is
distinct in that it narrows for the
wicked throwing them down into the House
of Lies and widens for those who follow
truth and order leading them to the
house of song which would you choose
number two the eternal return
[Music]
if time is infinite all possible events
will occur over and over again this
would leave us trapped in a kind of
infinite loop forced to repeat our
actions again and again reliving the
exact same life as well as all possible
variations I’m reliving the same day
over and over the idea of eternal
recurrence ought to German philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche who felt it was both
the heaviest of burdens and something we
have to embrace in order to affirm our
lives in modern times it’s been used to
explain our sense of deja vu it’s hard
to know what to hope for while eternal
recurrence makes our lives and history
unbearably heavy the opposite idea
leaves our lives light but fleeting
number one underground river ride in his
dialogue the Phaedo Plato has Socrates
recount a detailed myth about the
afterlife the earth Socrates explains is
much faster than we think
overhead is a pure earth and below our
hollow spaces through which subterranean
rivers pass in and out when we die we’re
guided underground to be judged the
ordinary are sent to the asphodel
Meadows the mediocre sailed to the a
kuru Xion lake to be punished and
absolved the evil are cast into Tartarus
a deep abyss of judgment and torment
it’s the Splash Mountain of the soul
which only the pure pass over ascending
to higher worlds some without bodies to
places of indescribable beauty
[Music]
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