The natural afterlife is hard to grasp, even harder to appreciate. To grasp it, you must be able to imagine what it’s like to never wake up from a dream, something you’ve never experienced. You must imagine never knowing that your dreamlike NDE has ended, thus forever “believing” it has not, despite knowing now that it will. And, you must imagine an eternity rushing by in what for you is an everlasting, yet unknowingly final NDE moment and thus NEE.

But more precisely how can your NDE become an NEE? First, given we can perceive time only by perceiving events—i.e., our event-relative time—with death and the resultant end of NDE events, you enter a timeless state (just like with falling asleep and the end of awake events). Second, given we can never perceive such loss of time—i.e., our imperceptible loss of time—you’re unaware that NDE events have ended when you’ve died (just like you’re unaware that awake events have ended when you’ve fallen asleep). And finally, given our conscious awareness occurs one discrete, present conscious moment at a time and we can only become aware of something within these moments—i.e., our present-moment consciousness—nothing will ever change your unawareness that the final, present moment of your final NDE event was final because with the forever timelessness of death no perceived event will ever provide another present moment. Thus your final NDE moment becomes in your mind your forever present moment. It embodies your NDE at a point in time including an expectation of future moments (as does any present moment) and your sense of self (as does any dream). This forever moment, along with the timelessness that ensues, is your timeless NEE and natural afterlife as depicted in the above figure.

To appreciate such a timeless afterlife, you must be able to not only envision but value being left at death in a static, dreamlike yet intensely real-like and emotional state of mind enjoying an everlasting, ideally heavenly moment, heightened by an anticipation of many such moments to come. For some, this vision must replace the vision of spending an eternity of human-like time in a time-perceiving, perfect world. Actually, such a world isn’t logical because perfection implies no challenges, no free will lest decisions be bad (even evil), and thus an eternity of boredom. Surely, not perfect! A timeless afterlife, on the other hand, has no such inconsistencies as one can logically experience a relativistic forever, perfect moment—in reality, the optimal heaven.