FWIW I don't think the below is worthy of crossing the line in our little happy home here, but if it is, Mod let me know and I'll chuck it as well...
I've always been fascinated by the concept of, what I'll call "energy of the consciousness" existing after we die. I mean, it wasn't there before we were born that we know of, so does it just cease? Or is there another level of consciousness that we are supposed to go on to and forget about this one? And are there people who have died whose consciousness has not moved on to the next level and are "stuck" on part of this plane?
Dunno.
Religion certainly plays a part in your individual decision on this. And before I go anywhere else on this, to me, every single person is free to believe what they want to believe. I'm a firm believer that when it comes to religion, leave me and mine alone, I'll leave you and yours alone. I make my own damn decisions on this and I don't thrust them on anyone else. That being said I do believe there is something beyond "this". What it is, I have no idea. Do I believe things in the Bible are true? Yeah, I think variations of the events happened, but like was mentioned, there are 2,000 years of man hands all over it, and let's face it, we can barely pull off an election in this day and age, what may have changed in those writings over the course of those 2,000 years? That again is someone elses' homework. I believe what I believe.
Man Pumbaa, I haven't thought about backwards masking in ages. (recording messages backwards onto albums) Yeah it's crap. First of all, you'd have to have a studio engineer in the 70's that wasn't so baked that he could actually pull it off. If it WAS done on some album, then more than likely, someone hit the bong one extra too many and thought it would be a fun idea. Trust me, I've worked in radio for almost 20 years, if they did back mask, it was a stoner joke... The vets in the industry I know were, and are, smart, but not without a brutal sense of humor...
The only thing I can really say about the pics I posted is what I said when I posted them. It's a true story, as for what the heck is in them, you judge for yourself. I really do appreciate everyone looking at them tho, and thanks for photoshopping them. I don't have the skill. Just enuf to be dangerous. But they do illustrate things that I have seen in the pics as well, so thanks.
Ize