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"Physical" vs "Non-Physical": What Do These Terms Mean WRT This World & The Afterlife?

Writer's picture: William MurrayWilliam Murray

This is actually one of my pet peeves about afterlife discussion, when people refer to the afterlife as "non-physical," and this world as the physical world. What I offer here is my view based on evidence and my own experiences. You are, of course, free to disregard or have a different view.


Physicality is a set of experiences. We not only experience it here in "this world," we experience it in dreams and in the afterlife. No, the afterlife is not like "a dream," because from the vast bulk of evidence we have available, it feels more solid, meaning more physical, and more real, than this world. From the perspective of the afterlife, this world feels more like a dream world than a real world. The dead often report that dying is like "waking up." NDErs often report that their experiences in the afterlife are far more real than this world, so real it usually dramatically changes their entire perspective, and their lives, in this world.


When people die, they almost always report finding themselves in completely solid, real physical bodies in a completely solid, real environment. They do not report it as being a "dream-like" experience at all. We here may associate some of the abilities we have there - like teleportation or creating objects with our minds - as being similar to experiences we have in dreams, but they are not experienced in the afterlife as being dream-like. It is sensed and experienced as being more real than this world.


In the most-reported areas of the afterlife, we have much deeper and greater sensory experience of the world and people around us, and we realize that our sensory capacities in this world were greatly reduced, had far less resolution, and some sensory capacities were entirely muted here.


So, "this world" is actually a less-physical world than the afterlife. IMO, people have erroneously mistaken the disabilities we adopted to come here and experience this world as defining qualities of what it means to be physical in a physical world, and the removal of those disabilities as being characteristic of a "non-physical" world, when the opposite is actually true. When we remove the disabilities we have here, we have a much fuller, richer, and deeper physical experience of ourselves and the people and world around us.

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