Immortality

Question 1

What is the definition of Reincarnation?

Answer 1

The essence of me, maybe a ‘soul’ is reincarnated into a new body after my death.

Question 2

What is the definition of Rebirth?

Answer 2

A ‘life-force’ or energy continues through different lives, without memory or personality.

Question 3

What is the definition of Legacy?

Answer 3

Those things I leave behind - my novel, my charity, my hospital wing - by which I am remembered long after my death.

Question 4

What is the definition of Memories?

Answer 4

Some say you never die until the last person who remembers you has died. I have an influence/impact through others.

Question 5

What is the Christian idea on Immortality?

Answer 5

Christians believe that one day God will raise all the people who have ever lived and judge them. Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God and that he died for the sins of all people. They believed that if Jesus had not died then all people would go to hell.

Question 6

Ideas against immortality.

Answer 6

Scientific ideas present a materialist understanding of the world - we are physical beings in a physical world. There is no convincing evidence of a non-physical spirit or soul.

Question 7

What are the two key sources of evidence for past lives?

Answer 7

1. Hypnotic regression: controversial technique where hypnotism is used to uncover past life memories.
2. Reincarnation: young children have spontaneous memories of past life

Question 8

What are the two key sources of evidence for Afterlife?

Answer 8

1. Channelling: the ability to either talk to the dead or to Let the dead talk through the body of a spirit medium.
2. Near Death Experiences: an out of body experience whereby the person claims to have left the body and moved to a different ‘realm’, often meeting dead relatives and sometimes a ‘divine’ being.

Question 9

What is the Hindu idea on immortality?

Answer 9

Hindus believe in reincarnation. This means that they believe that at the end of their life their soul will be reborn in another form this is called the law of samsara.
The creature the soul moves on to depends upon how the previous creature lived, this is called the law of karma

Question 10

What is the definition of duality?

Answer 10

The idea that the mind and the body are distinct and separate entities.