The Law of Eternal Existence

Do you know what is present in a live person, but missing from a corpse?

When I ask people this very question, they commonly reply, “Breathing … heartbeat … motion.” And yes, this is all correct; but there is something else that causes breathing and heartbeat and motion.

Guyton’s Textbook of Medical Physiology (eighth edn, p 478) illustrates that the central nervous system is the master system of the human body. Consisting of the brain and spinal cord, this system controls and coordinates all of the other systems of the body, all 75 trillion cells.

In truth, even dead people have brains and yet they are not alive. Hence, the nervous system itself must not be the animator of life. If I put a plastic bag over my head, I will suffocate and die. Upon hitting the floor, my brain will remain intact. I will still weigh the same amount. My cellular structures will be essentially unchanged. Initially, even my body temperature will remain unaltered. But obviously, something is missing.

One very important thing found in a live being, but missing from a corpse is the presence of a measurable electrical activity within the brain. This can be demonstrated by using an EEG (electro-encephalograph), which measures and records electrical brain waves.

In a living being, measurable electrical energy current courses back and forth along the nervous system, going from brain to body and body to brain at 200 mph. It is not the brain and nerves themselves that drive life; rather, they are a pathway for the energy current which is integral to animation of the body. It is the organizing force of this energy current which causes the skeletal muscle fibers of your diaphragm to contract and relax so that you can breathe. It is the force of this energy current which causes the smooth muscles of your heart to contract and relax so it can pump blood throughout your body. It is the force of this energy that organizes the structure and functions of every single cell, hormone, and biological chemical in a living being. Within each man, there lives a majestic power that transforms common food into living, loving, thinking clay. It builds a human being from nothing more than a genetic blueprint and the raw materials it finds on the Earth. It maintains the material of the body of a living thing in dynamic organization for the purpose of survival. This energy continually gives to a living thing all of its signs of life (i.e. blood flow, production of bile, cellular repair, hunger, etc.). It never, ever makes mistakes. In order to ensure the survival of its host for as long as possible, it adapts the host’s physiology to the current environment without violating the laws of nature.

The energy in the body is subject to the same laws as the energy out in the distant reaches of the universe: It can neither be created nor destroyed, merely moved and changed from one form to another. Whenever energy leaves your physical body, it must, according to absolute natural law, continue to exist somewhere, somehow.

Energy binds atoms into molecules, into cells, into tissues, into organs, into a human body. Remove all of the electrical energy from your body and it will return to the dust. The human body itself is merely the physical manifestation of energy. When the body is bound into physical existence, it possesses order and organization as a symbiotic community of cells. Interfere with the natural free-flowing distribution of this electrical energy and the organization of your cellular structure and health will diminish proportionately.

Energy is integral to organization. Energy either maintains organization of the body or is the single means by which some other undetectable source directs organization. In either instance, there exists some intelligence, if you will, that maintains organization and order in human beings.

This energy-entwined, organizing intelligence coursing through your system is what makes you, you. At your conception, organizing intelligence drove the development of your tiny body. Its presence built your body from a single-celled organism in your mother’s womb. Its continued presence within your body maintains your life to this very day.

Each man has within him something that cannot be created or destroyed; something that weighs nothing, but runs everything. Some people say, “I don’t want to live forever.” I say, “They better start getting fucking used to it!” Like it or not, something within you is all-powerful. Something within you is destined for eternal existence. Something within you had no beginning and shall have no end. It has existed as long as God Himself. Something about you is divine.

No Such Thing as Murder?

If the reader is inclined to accept the logic of the Law of Eternal Existence, then he must question whether or not it is truly possible to terminate life? For an eternal being cannot be terminated, only his earthly body taken from him.

If something within us is indestructible, then aborting a baby does nothing more than release its energy back into the Great Beyond. According to this line of reasoning, abortion merely robs a man of the vessel in which he would enter this world. For all we know, that life energy therefore returns to the stars, enters a tree, or is transferred into a newly conceived cow. Not that I would personally take this stance, but one might be inclined to argue that a man’s life energy may enjoy its earthly experience much more as a bird than as the illegitimate child of a crack whore. It is never better to be dead than alive, but it may be better to live as a bird than as a starving child. In some cases, maybe abortion is a form of merciful euthanasia.

Not only should a man doubt the validity of his stance for or against abortion, but both for and against his every decision. In determining what is righteous, the issues are more often gray than black and white. Man must accept that he cannot know those things that cannot be known.

Sadly, man is inclined to believe that he knows so much more than he actually does.