Reasons to stick around in mortal form, even after (hypothetically) attaining 100% Knowing of Immortality

(this is from my older main blog)

in no particular order...

Sex (don't assume it's as good or the same in the afterlife)

Food (don't assume it's as good in the afterlife)

Drugs (don't assume it's as good in the afterlife)

Good Books (don't assume it's the same as reading down here)

Good TV shows and Movies (Need I say more?)

Good Computer Games (Do you really think you'll be able to play them in the afterlife?)

Humour (There is much laughter to be had down here)

Fighting the Matrix (In all the small ways and the large, in all the direct ways and the more oblique)

Drive to Self-Perfection (The Second Salvation, Knowing of Afterlife being the First)

Anthropological/Sociological interest (to Watch - Watch them, Watch them all!)

Helping Loved Ones (Gently guiding them to more (After) Life Affirming thinking)

Inspirational passage from the gnostic Gospel of Truth (Alan Jacobs translation)

From daylight above
which knows no night,
and from that sun which never
sets because it is flawless.

Utter from the heart
"I am the perfect day!
And in me dwells that light
which never sets."

Ouroboros (snake eating it's tail) as negative

Ouroboros - this ancient symbol (going all the way back to ancient Egypt) has down the ages been considered variously as positive and negative. In modern times, Carl Jung considered it as a positive symbol. I consider it negative.

Ouroboros is the entire predator/prey parasitic and almost entirely blinded system of the parts of the Kosmos condensed to a slower vibration...

There is some bad news...there is no truly ever escaping Ouroboros. In a previous post I said otherwise, but there are different kinds of escape. we will never Ultimately escape it even in Death/Transition. There can only be constant self-overcoming (In this mortal realm and the Other Place) and will to perfection towards an impossible-to-reach Ideal, just as Law is the shadow of Justice.

There can only be the Eternal War within yourself, against the various parts of yourself. The Amoeba part of you, the Reptile and the Ape (To speak nothing of the Subconscious!). As the often depressing band Mudvayne put it "internal primates forever"

We're like Russian Dolls. One inside the other inside the other. One outside the other outside the other...

Whether you believe in multiple incarnations or that we only have one mortal life - even one has already tainted you! You and I, fellow sufferers (homo sapiens) are eternally stuck with the Ape, for better or worse.

from the Corpus Hermeticum VII (Alan Jacobs Translation)

CORPUS HERMETICUM VII

Dear fellows, where are you rushing to like drunkards, tipsy and staggering on the rich wine of reason, forgetful of God?

You cannot stomach it; already you're about to vomit!

Halt! Sober up!

Elevate yourself by mental power. Maybe not all of you can do that, but some of you can!

For the degeneration that flows from forgetfulness is drowning the earth, infecting soul and body, veiling the soul like a cloak and stopping you from abiding in the heart.

So don't be swept away by this mad flood!

Find the way into your heart. Look for a good teacher to show you the path to the gates of rememberance. Where there's a Light, radiant and bright, free from darkness.

Where nobody is drunk, but keeps their mental eye on that Great Being who wills to be known in their heart.

That Great Being cannot be seen or heard, or spoken or thought about, only by a higher subtle intellect that transcends normal matters of the mind.

But first strip off the soiled cloak you wear,
the foul mantle of forgetfulness,
the base of wickedness,
the link with evil, the black pit,
the spiritual death,
the walking corpse,
the moving coffin,
the domestic rogue who
feeds on guile, which he relishes,
and conspires to cause your downfall.

Such is the habit; the filthy coat you've put on, that is your foe! It suffocates you and drags you down to it's cruel self, into the gutter.

Otherwise, through aspiration and seeing the beauty of Truth and the Good that dwells in you, you will come to despise this vile enemy who plots to destroy you.

It ruins the mind and pollutes the senses by muddying them with gross materialism, filling them with disgusting lust for inane pleasure, to prevent you from understanding what you should understand!

And, what is worse, it will stop you from seeing forever what you should really see!