We look at the brain’s functioning when it is about to expire and how to proceed without it by leaving consciousness behind.
Duality Hack #4.6 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
Death is only the end of an illusion, not reality
In the moments before death sets in, the brain cannot fabricate the usual images of a physical world because it runs out of oxygen. Therefore, since you cannot assign thoughts and feelings to a tangible world, they fly around chaotically and speedily.
So, if you were used to disassociating yourself from unpleasant thoughts and feelings by projecting them onto something physical, you feel captured by unshaped thoughts and feelings. However, you are not boxed in by them but by your wish to feel good by projecting what you judge as evil thoughts and feelings onto the tangible world the brain used to establish outside you via its experiences.
On the other hand, if you do not try to manipulate intangible thoughts and feelings to establish yourself as someone in a capsule of time and space, they do not seem to trap you. Actually, the memory of your appearance as a limited being naturally fades out when you include thoughts and feelings. It does not leave anything to define you as somebody. Hence, nobody returns to oneness, which is fine because nobody ever left it.
Do not manipulate feelings, but look at them till they fade out
When it seems the body is about to end, it is best not to hang onto any thought or feeling passing by. However, that does not mean you should try to stop them or let them be. Doing something establishes the belief in being someone, so you will panic when the body expires. Therefore, you must forget everything about being someone.
But that can be frightening. If so, do not suppress the fear but face it by following the stream of fear to its end. It does not take long because feelings are fleeting when not suppressed but looked at. When you have faced fear, there is room for other streams of feelings to be played out. Doing that, you empty yourself. Therefore, there is not something to hide the formlessness of oneness is all there ever was and will be.
When the TV screen is blank, there is no world to see. So, if you notice something, it is made up. But that also applies when there appears to be a world on the TV screen because the brain produces everything you see.
A near-death experience is like when the screen turns blank on a TV. The world is gone. Only the sound of it is left. In this metaphor, that is the sound of your thoughts. And since you cannot project them onto the world on the screen, it feels claustrophobic if you believe thoughts are real.
Death is not a requirement for oneness
Please do not think the death of the body is a requirement for oneness. On the contrary, since it requires more than one to die, it does not lead to oneness. For the same reason, nothing else does. Luckily, returning to oneness is unnecessary. It is formless, thus endless, so you have never left, except in fantasy. In other words, when the brain stops functioning, the fantasy of more than one dies, but not that which is One.
But the body does not need to die to undo the fantasy of more than one. It is the belief that the fantasy is real that must go. You do not have to wait until the body is dying to play out streams of feelings as described above. The same applies to streams of thoughts, which generally appear before the streams of feelings. You can play out the streams wherever you are, thus in the bliss of nothing until you the Enlightenment of that which is One set in or return to the consciousness of being in a world with more than one. In the case of the latter, you return with the slate wiped clean, so every moment is the perfect moment – also when the brain stops functioning someday and ends the idea of being someone.
See Duality Hack #9.10 about the bliss of nothing wiping the slate clean.
Notes on death and oneness:
The loneliness that your suppressed thoughts and feelings entail cannot be shared with anybody when dying. Thus, it feels like hell. But when you include all thoughts and feelings, there is no loneliness. You are at peace, slowly falling into the formlessness of oneness. So, neither in hell nor heaven, because being somewhere takes more than one.
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If you want to be at one with a soulmate, god or whatnot, the formlessness of oneness seems claustrophobic because it takes more than one to become one with somebody, and oneness has only room for one.
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When the apparent difference between life and death in a world with more than one does not make a difference, there is no fear of death. Thus, the end of you in such a world is just the end of the belief in more than one.
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At the moment of death, do not hang onto consciousness. Without the awareness of something, there is nothing to hide the formlessness of oneness.
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As already mentioned, when the brain is about to expire, it does not have enough oxygen to fabricate the usual experiences of a world outside you. Instead, it produces soothing images inside you, like light tunnels, to prevent you from panicking. However, nobody needs them if not believing in the outside world because there is no inside without it. Hence, nobody is dying.
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Not believing in being someone you cannot die because it takes more than one to experience it.
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