Death and birth: two transformations, one visibility problem

Death and birth: two transformations, one visibility problem

We understand birth in the ordinary sense because we can see it: a child emerges from a mother’s body, and the event can be timed, photographed, measured, and put on a certificate with a date and a location. It happens within physical perception, so it looks comprehensible. Death, by contrast, is the incomprehensible one in our ordinary view: the person is present, and then they are not, and whatever has happened is beyond the outer senses. Seth’s Session 44 flips that asymmetry and says death is not more mysterious than birth; it only appears that way because its incomprehensibility faces outward, away from physical understanding, while birth’s faces inward and gets hidden inside the event. The outer senses register vacancy, not the transformation itself, because consciousness is moving into or out of a mode of organization they cannot detect.

Gobble's Take: The punchline is brutally simple: we call one transformation “understood” only because we can point at the ending.
Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

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