Santa Muerte Devotion 101: Answers and Explanations for Curious Readers and New Devotees
Digital Web Book by Arnold Bustillo
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Digital Web Book by Arnold Bustillo
Buy the paperback at https://amzn.to/41gmMKg
The Afterlife for Santa Muerte Devotees
It’s only natural for human beings to wonder what will happen to us when we die. Unfortunately, the only people who can tell us what the afterlife is like are all dead.
For devotees of Santa Muerte, there is no afterlife myth, and many of us do not concern ourselves with what we cannot possibly know. Most religions seek to explain the unexplainable for no other reason than it makes people feel good, but making up a story when there is a hole in the facts doesn’t change the facts - the facts are as they are - the story just becomes little more than a drug that helps people sleep at night. As devotees of Santa Muerte who choose to be honest with ourselves by acknowledging death, we must also be honest with ourselves and acknowledge that we do not know what we do not know. The truth will be revealed to us in good time, and there is nothing wrong with admitting our present ignorance.
Death is never an end, but a new beginning that we will all get to experience. New beginnings can be scary - this is the nature of the unknown. Rather than focusing on what you cannot know, on an idea of an afterlife that may or may not be correct, I would encourage you to instead focus on what you do know, like what you know about being a good person on this Earth, in the here and now.
For devotees of Santa Muerte, there is no afterlife myth, and many of us do not concern ourselves with what we cannot possibly know. Most religions seek to explain the unexplainable for no other reason than it makes people feel good, but making up a story when there is a hole in the facts doesn’t change the facts - the facts are as they are - the story just becomes little more than a drug that helps people sleep at night. As devotees of Santa Muerte who choose to be honest with ourselves by acknowledging death, we must also be honest with ourselves and acknowledge that we do not know what we do not know. The truth will be revealed to us in good time, and there is nothing wrong with admitting our present ignorance.
Death is never an end, but a new beginning that we will all get to experience. New beginnings can be scary - this is the nature of the unknown. Rather than focusing on what you cannot know, on an idea of an afterlife that may or may not be correct, I would encourage you to instead focus on what you do know, like what you know about being a good person on this Earth, in the here and now.