Substantial Independent Research over hundreds of years, has explored how people’s brain activity becomes shared or influenced. Whether minds can connect subconsciously without ordinary communication, and whether consciousness can be shared. These different areas offer starting points for exploring another possibility: Could the collective of all living beings carry some continuing part of all those who died before us? Could all life carry part of us after we die?
If revealed, protecting many forms of life and supporting their well-being might also sustain those who came before us, our families — and our own possible afterlife.
The following is a hypothetical interpretation, using only a proposed frame: everyone’s afterlife continues within all living people. It does not claim that this occurs, but if true it provides a consistency with the Ten Commandments related to protecting everyone’s Afterlife.
| Commandment | Meaning within the shared-afterlife frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Have no other gods before God. | No person or group owns the shared spiritual existence. Giving one group absolute importance while harming others could weaken the living people who also carry that group’s ancestors and loved ones. |
| 2. Do not make or worship images. | Images include all written characters. Images and writing express only part of what they describe. No writing should be revered as complete or unquestionable truth. Understanding must remain open to discoveries about life and the afterlife it may carry. |
| 3. Do not misuse God’s name. | Using God’s name to justify harm could damage the people who carry everyone’s afterlife, including our own loved ones. Claiming divine authority would not prevent that damage. |
| 4. Remember the Sabbath. | Give people time to rest and recover. Protecting their health and capacity could also sustain those whose afterlife continues within them. |
| 5. Honor your father and mother. | Support the people through whom your life began. After their deaths, extend that care to others, who may also carry your parents’ continuing existence. |
| 6. Do not kill. | Killing a person could destroy part of the living support for everyone’s afterlife. That loss could affect our ancestors, our loved ones, and our own future continuation. |
| 7. Do not commit adultery. | Deception and betrayal within intimate commitments can weaken trust, families, and mutual care. Protect those relationships because they help sustain living people and the afterlife they may carry. |
| 8. Do not steal. | Taking resources from others can weaken their ability to live and support others. Their loss could also weaken the shared afterlife in which we and our loved ones may participate. |
| 9. Do not bear false witness. | False accusations can cause people to be isolated, deprived, or killed. Speak accurately, acknowledge uncertainty, and correct errors so that others can protect the living people who may sustain us all. |
| 10. Do not covet. | Seeking another’s advantages in ways that weaken them reduces the capacity of life overall. Practice the opposite: help one another develop strengths, resources, and opportunities. Create gains that strengthen others and ourselves, increasing life’s capacity to sustain everyone’s possible afterlife. |
Protecting and strengthening one another could therefore serve our present lives, those who preceded us, and our own possible afterlife.
The connection running through all ten is: what we do to living people could also affect those who preceded us—and the living people who may one day sustain us.
Thus, the purpose of Life.
Promote that which continuously evolves the greatest sustainable diversity of all life and cultures; not just humans. Provide sustainable population growth by projecting life out into our solar system, developing resources, and eventually projecting life across the Universe.