Ingmar Bergman, rational atheist.


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Topic: Religions > Atheism
User: "Enkidu"
Date: 18 Dec 2005 01:10:46 PM
Object: Ingmar Bergman, rational atheist.
My fear of death was to a great degree linked to my
religious concepts. Later on, I underwent minor surgery.
By mistake I was given too much anesthesia. I felt as if
I had disappeared out of reality. Where did the hours go?
They flashed in a microsecond.
Suddenly I realized, that is how it is. That one could be
transformed from being to not-being -- it was hard to grasp.
But for a person with a constant anxiety about death, now
liberating. Yet at the same time it seems a bit sad. You say
to yourself that it would have been fun to encounter new
experiences once your soul had had a little rest and grown
accustomed to being separated from your body. But I don't
think that is what happens to you. First you are, then you
are not. This I find deeply satisfying.
That which had been formerly been so enigmatic and
frightening, namely, what might exist beyond this world,
does not exist. Everything is of this world. Everything
exists and happens inside us, and we flow into and out of
one another. It's perfectly fine like that.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were
true."

- Mark Twain
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