Eugene responds to an audience member who states “Life is hard and ends in death.”
‘Hard” = HRD =Hierarchical, Discriminative, Division. “The ‘universe is hard’ means that, actually, there are differences of power and discriminative ability.” People are different in all manner of ways. They do not think, feel or will in the same way. “No two individuals are identical in any respect, that is the meaning of hard.”
Everybody believes that death is certain, but what is it? It is the leaving of the life-principle which animates the physical body. He gives the example of a dying sparrow; the eye is bright and then suddenly “ceases to shine.” A moment before there was a consciousness looking out of the eye, and now it has gone, departed. i.e. death is when a being loses interest in the body and withdraws from it. That consciousness does not move to a different spatial location, so we cannot say where did it go?It has simply ‘detuned’ its “hierarchical, discriminative power”, it has stopped its focus on that body. Instead of saying a person has died, we should say that they have withdrawn their interest from that body. Some people can make sudden recoveries from near death if they suddenly find a new interest, such as a long, lost friend coming to see them. Some people can get into states so close to death that all functioning stops; and then they come back to life. The original statement should be: “Life is hard and ends in withdrawal of interest.” Interest can be created by forbidding it. e.g. If we are denied something we tend to want it more than when it was allowed to us. “Everything that is forbidden is brought into focus.” God invented this trick and played it on Adam and Eve – forbidden fruit is always the most attractive.
He remembers giving advice to a potential suicide: “Have you died before that you remember?” “No.” “How do you know that when you are dead you are dead? Supposing you are not properly dead? What condition are you in? Have you ever been in a nightmare and been glad to have a body to wake up in?”
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