God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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As far as the present life is concerned, all our
conscious functions are subject to the laws of time
and space; the world hereafter – if it exists – is
beyond their preview. If, according to Freud’s
theory, we had an intellectual life which was free
from these laws, this would clearly establish the fact
that this life would continue even after death and
that we would survive in spite of death. Our dying
is a logical outcome of the laws of time and space.
Our real entity, or, in the words of Freud, our
subconscious, is totally free from these laws. That is
why death does not affect it. Death affects only our
mortal body. The subconscious, which is the real
being, survives even after the death of man.
Suppose an event which took place in my life
twenty five years ago, or an idea which developed
in my mind equally long ago, slipped from my
memory, but that one day I recollected that very
event or idea, or even dreamt of it, the
psychologist’s explanation would be that it had all
along been preserved intact in the depths of my
sub-conscious. Here arises the question of where
the memory lies. If it were engraved upon the cells
as the voice is registered on gramophone records, it
could not have been perpetuated, because those
