We have been taught we are just a collection of cells and that we die when our bodies wear out. But, a long list of scientific experiments suggests our belief in death is based on a false premise, that the world exists independent of us. Not true.

Here are five reasons that we will live on, even after death of our bodies.

Reason One. For one thing, we are not objects. Our bodies are special beings. According to biocentrism, there is nothing that could exist without consciousness. Space and time aren’t objects. They are tools to sort out our minds and piece it all together. Death doesn’t exist in a timeless world. Our minds transcend space and time.

Reason Two. Conservation of energy is a fundamental axiom of science. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can’t be created or destroyed. It can only change forms. This energy doesn’t go away at death. It doesn’t just dissipate into the environment. It has no reality independent of us. We create our own sphere of reality – we carry space and time around with us. There really is no absolute self-existing matrix in which energy just dissipates.

Reason Three. Although we generally reject parallel universes as fiction, there’s more than a morsel of scientific truth to this genre. There are an infinite number of universes (including our universe), which together comprise all of physical reality. Everything that can possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death doesn’t exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them.

Reason Four. We will live on through our children, friends, and all who we touched during our life, not only as part of them, but through the histories we make with every action we take. There are whole areas of history that we determine during our lives. When we interact with someone, we make more and more reality. When we are gone, our presence will continue like a ghost puppeteer in the universes of all those we know.

Reason Five. It’s not an accident that we happen to have the fortune of being alive. While we will eventually exit this reality, we, as the observer, will forever continue on. Our consciousness will always be in the present — balanced between the infinite past and the indefinite future — moving intermittently between realities along the edge of time, having new adventures and meeting new (and rejoining old) friends.

Condensed from, “Biocentrism” (BenBella Books) lays out Lanza’s theory of everything.