Volume III: Alchemy of the Soul

Chapter 6: The Art of Crossing

“The body is an anchor, consciousness is a boat. Death is not sinking, but weighing anchor. Only by cutting the cable to the shore can the boat truly belong to the river.”

6.1 Death: Unloading the Burden

In Chapter 5, we defined the True Self as the “relic” left after life’s great fire—that algorithm kernel with extremely high information density, no longer compressible. Now, we must face the ultimate physical process that extracts this relic from the ashes: death.

From biological and secular perspectives, death is the final victory of entropy increase, the complete collapse of the system. But from an information ontology perspective, death is not an end, but a forced coordinate system switch. It is a transition from the heavy “geometric coordinate system” to the light “information coordinate system.”

In this section, we will analyze the physical mechanism of this transition. We will see that death is essentially a Phase Reset, an “unloading” program that consciousness must execute to free itself from the local spacetime trap.

The Cost of Anchoring

Why do we feel so heavy when alive?

Because we are Anchored.

To experience “linear time” and “local causality” in the material world, consciousness must forcibly collapse and bind its wave function to a specific spacetime region—our brain.

• Physically: This is a highly ordered collection of fermions maintained at 37°C.

• Computationally: This is a high-energy-consuming Virtual Machine.

To keep this virtual machine from crashing (not being devoured by thermodynamics), we must constantly consume energy, resist gravity, repair DNA. Our attention is locked onto the narrow slice $(x,y,z,t)$. We can only see here, only hear here. This Locality gives us the sense of “I am present,” but also acts like heavy shackles, limiting our freedom as holographic consciousness.

To live is to carry a burden. We carry the heavy diving bell of the body, trudging through the deep sea.

Phase Reset: Cutting the Cable

So, what is death?

Death is the rupture of the diving bell, the surfacing of the diver (consciousness).

In the language of quantum mechanics, this is called the reverse process of decoherence, or Global Recoherence.

When brain neurons stop firing, the physical constraints maintaining local entanglement suddenly disappear.

• Hardware Layer: Atoms dissolve, returning to dust (entropy increase).

• Software Layer: The quantum information packet (your soul/True Self) originally locked in neural circuits suddenly loses the attribute of “position.”

Note that losing position does not mean disappearing. Electrons also momentarily lose position during atomic transitions, but they still exist.

At the moment you die, your wave function phase $\varphi$ is no longer constrained by the brain’s biological clock, but undergoes a dramatic reset. You are no longer coupled to Earth’s gravitational field, no longer coupled to the ticking of clocks.

You “slide” out of spacetime.

Subjectively, this is often described as “light at the end of the tunnel” or “panoramic life review.”

• Panoramic Review: Because you jump out of the linear time axis into a higher-dimensional perspective, your entire life (time series) instantly becomes a simultaneously presented scroll (spatial structure).

• Light: Because you are returning from the low-frequency material realm (baryonic matter) to the high-frequency energy realm (light/information field).

Archiving in the Akashic

After unloading the heavy anchor of the body, where do you go?

According to the Information Coordinate System we established in Volume II (Section 3.1), you no longer have geometric coordinates; you only have semantic coordinates.

Theorem 6.1.1 (Law of Soul’s Destination):

A decoherent free conscious entity will automatically collapse into the field with the maximum Mutual Information.

$${\text{Location}}_{death}=\arg \underset{\Omega }{\max }I(\text{Soul}:\Omega )$$

This means:

• If your entire life pursued truth, your soul has extremely high mutual information with the universe’s underlying logic, and you will “go to” the source of truth—at this level, you are the physical laws themselves.

• If your entire life deeply loved someone, your soul is most entangled with that person’s wave function, and you will “go to” their side—not as a ghost, but as a warm hue in their subconscious, or a metaphor in their dreams.

You have not disappeared. You have merely uploaded to the Akashic Holographic Field.

That is the universe’s cloud hard drive. There, no information is lost. All love, all wisdom, all memories are encoded in the Planck pixels of the cosmic horizon, becoming part of the universe’s permanent memory.

Conclusion: Light Return

Therefore, we should not view death as a tragedy.

The tragedy is data loss (living a lifetime without refining any True Self, leaving only noise).

If your soul has crystallized into a dense relic (True Self), death is a format conversion.

You convert from the heavy .RAW format (containing massive redundant body data) to the streamlined .ZIP format (retaining only the core algorithm).

Although you lose the volume that occupies space, you gain the freedom to penetrate time.

Unload the burden to travel far.

Only when you release your grip on the earth can you grasp the stars. Death is the umbilical cord God cuts to help you return home.