And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying to cheer themselves up in the same way that our own ancestors did when faced with death, by believing that there is life after death. How would they resolve the problem that in the afterlife they might once more be eaten by man?

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International Airport to the afterlife. He is usually portrayed as being half human and half jackal, and holding a metal detector in his hand ... Anubis is employed by the Department of Homeland Security to examine the hearts of all travelers to make sure they have not exceeded the weight limit for psychological baggage ... He is also shown frisking mummies and confiscating firearms and other contraband. It doesn't take much to tip the scales in favor of a dead body cavity search or an after lifetime travel ban.

— Stephen Moles

Anyone who craves an afterlife has not lived their life to the fullest.

— Robert Black

Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely...

— Jonni Gray

As far as I know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn’t care if he lives or dies.

— Michael Monroe

As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds "Java" (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with "Akiva" (the lifeless, material aspect of this world) - perhaps not unlike that which science seeks to bind energy with mass (if I understand either concept correctly). But it is only through asceticism that one might shed his predestined karmic allotment. I suppose this is what I still don't quite understand in any of these shamanic philosophies, though - their end-game. Their "Moshe", or "multi", or "samsara". This oneness/emptiness, liberation/ transcendence of karma/Akiva, of rebirth and ego - of "the self", of life, of everything. How exactly would this state differ from any standard, scientific definition of death? Plain old death. Or, at most, if any experience remains, from what might be more commonly imagined/feared to be death - some dark perpetual existence of paralyzed, semi-conscious nothingness. An incessant dreamless sleep from which one never wakes? They all assure you, of course, that this will be no condition of endless torment, but rather one of "eternal bliss". Inexplicable, incommunicable "bliss", mind you, but "bliss" nonetheless. So many in the realm of science, too, seem to propagate a notion of "bliss" - only here, in this world, with the universe being some great amusement park of non-stop "wonder" and "discovery". Any truly scientific, unbiased examination of their "discoveries", though, only ever seems to reveal a world that simply just "is" - where "wonder" is merely a euphemism for ignorance, and learning is its own reward because, frankly, nothing else ever could be. Still, the scientist seeks to conquer this ignorance, even though his very happiness depends on it - offering only some pale vision of eternal dumbfoundedness, and endless hollow surprises. The shaman, on the other hand, offers total knowledge of this hollowness, all at once - renouncing any form of happiness or pleasure, here, to seek some other ultimate, unknowable "bliss", off in the beyond...

— Mark X.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

— Michael Monroe

At first, it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.

— Rajiv Joseph

Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course, it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction

— Bangambiki Habyarimana