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Not dealing with one's fear of death is the root of all evil. I like to kid myself that I do not fear death as much as the average person because of my near death experience at age seven & the way I have cultivated my life with a passion for truth. The very likely possibility though is that I may not die without fear & that his lack of faith will make me food for the worms like mostly everyone else. I get the sense that you feel like the heightening of consciousness would be accomplished by moving "beyond good & evil", !@#$%!; you despise the percieved judgement inherent in Christianity's premiss/premise. i maintain that in this corporeal state, it is simply not possible to move beyond good & evil & that you are the one unfortunately fooling yourself. We are human animals, but we are human animals that have the (rarely used -- frontal lobe, remember?) ability to contemplate our own death. Thus, animals are sinless, but we are not. I have no problem with the individual self, i love art & music for instance, but as far as this being real in the ultimate sense of reality, it simply isn't; thus, the true artist has archetypal appeal because they have made the sacrifice to die to themself, at least a little bit. The true indvidual paradoxically must lose the self to discover their true nature. It's part of the great mystery of life. This'll come off as Obi-Wan Kenobi-ish, but we not only have ideas that bleed into each other as humans, we actually exchange atoms & energy regularly with each other & our surroundings too. This is a scientific fact revealed in quantum physics which one may argue is just theory because it is supposedly ever-expanding. My feeling is that there never will be a theory of everything & that Einstein is the closest to the Truth humans will ever get...ever. In fact, because we cannot handle the truth, (shades of Jack, sorry), & because humans live in complete denial of death, we will end up destroying ourselves & extinguishing the human race by abusing the truth that we do know & probably long before the Sun goes supernova. It's a fatalistic view, but hopefully we can all get our hearts & minds together....one day...someday.
I hope that doesn't make you wretch. It certainly shouldn't.
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