What are We

If we destroy our brain nothing of us remains. What of people who have Alzheimer’s, dementia or some other brain disorder are they still them?  If I had Alzheimer’s I may become scared at the beginning of the disease as I would still have the function of recognising something was wrong, I would still be me to myself but outwardly I would demonstrate a different man and no one would want that.  What will I loose or take to the next life, not these cells that make up my body they die all the time and I never notice.  This body that you are in will perish, how is it that when people have seen others in heaven that they have recognised them.  Your brain searches the neurons to find that connection then you recognise but people who have never known each other have found a mystical bond and later discovered that they are related, what is it, a smell, a likeness or a spiritual recognition.  Many have read about the transfiguration on the mount yet not many have thought, how did the disciples recognise Moses and Elisha (Mathew 17)?  Therefore someone told him not in words but directly into the soul of Peter, that these are the men standing before you.  Another example is Luke 24 13-35 they did not recognise Jesus all day until their eyes were opened.  Our eyes deceive us we cover them with our world and we cannot see what we are created to see, we block our ears with the noise of life so we can’t hear the whisper of God and we harden our bodies against the violence of the elements so we can’t feel the cry unto our hearts. Yet all these things will pass away, you have a new eternal body waiting, the real thing that is you, make it right, for this is only thing that you will take on in the next life.