“… Just to be a bit contrary, however, I will sketch some answers.

1) What is life?

A broad library of primordial and transentient relationships that are reflected in physical structure and respond to opportunity, threat, temporal existence… with awareness, consciousness, intelligence, and agentive competence. Something like ‘the light of Origin, shining upon and in/transforming the structured processes within timespace’.

2) What is man?

Originally, a physical symbiont of transentient beings, presently an animal that has become tragically infected with specific diseases resultant from the pathological failures of representational cognition that are natural to those who ignore the dangers of this library of protocols.

3) What is life composed of?

Spiritually animated (from within) matter. Effectively ‘magic dusts’.

4) What is Spirit and what is Soul?

Human languages differ in their capacity to point at the transcendental, in part because the transcendental is »first transcendental to language (as is nearly everything, actually). In any case, these two terms refer variously to the noncorporeal, not-merely-physical aspects we’d associate with a being, creature or person. Various traditions hold different models and explanations of such features. Effectively, that which ‘does not die at death’ and that in which ‘eternal memory is always present’. Perhaps non-trivially, the human being has a ‘traveling body’ which is noncorporeal and sometimes formed during sleep or hypno-gogic/pompic experience. This aspect ‘bird like’ naturally ‘travels’ and iis primary expression of this travel is ‘flight’.

5) What is death?

The primordial mystery. At the root of all desire and aversion. All motivation. In terms of the situation local to the body, it’s the sudden cessation of specifically privileged (in though) processes such as the heartbeat or EM brain activity. More complexly, it’s the slow dissipation of the previously vital localization of divinely originating elements, entities and energies. An ongoing symphony of disentanglement that lasts some 90 or more days, and is somewhat unique in each case in terms of what disappears from the local body, when, how, why… all similar in most organisms, but also unique in specific instances of death. Each death is at least as unique as each Life is…

6) What happens at death?

Another facet of the primordial mystery. Probably something not entirely dissimilar to birth or awakening from a dream (bear in mind how unique to each person and situation these actually are), but more complex… psychogenic (mind-generating/originating), and probably highly charged with the sense of communion, family, Origin, the Divine, etc. The ‘correct’ answer is that ‘no one knows’, or simply, ‘I don’t know’.”