Life after death?

Question

I'd like to believe that ther is something else when we die, but a lot of people say that you return as something else. If that is the case how do we know whether this time round is our first time or if we've been here b4 & this is our second go, and do we keep on dying & returning. I find it hard to believe that we can be here today & gone tomorrow & thats it...... there has to be something else.... but what??

Answer 1

Death does not exist.
Death is a relative word that means change. We always go from one dimension of existence into a higher form of existence. Or in a symbolic language from one world to a higher world. At each transition we have to change - die, in the ordinary language.
People who cease to have a physical existence continue to live but in a higher dimension, unknown to us for a very good reason.
This may sound too esoteric but it is simple and logical; an example will clarify it.
When we were in the womb of our mother we were in another world. We were living in a physiological world. It was completely different from this physical world.
When we abandoned the womb world (died to the womb world) and were born into the physical world, we didn't "go" to any other place. We stayed in the same place. We came into a new and higher dimension of existence, the physical world.
Similarly when we abandon the physical world we continue our existence in a more evolved or higher dimension that is not physical but spiritual.
So the next world is not a "place" where we will be going to. It is here. But in another dimension unknown to us, just as the physical world was unknown to the fetus.

Death does not exist even in the physical sense because all the atoms of our body continue to exist in some other form.

2. The purpose of life
The purpose of the physiological world -the womb world- was to develop eyes, ears, lungs, feet, hands and brains that were of no use in that environment. Their necessity became apparent in the following world, this physical world.
The purpose of the physical world in which we live now, is to develop moral virtues and to put them to the service of mankind. The usefulness of the effort of polishing our character and acquiring moral virtues will become apparent in the other dimensions of life which are not material but spiritual.
Progress continues in all the worlds and is not limited to this physical world.
To conclude death has been wrongly interpreted during the infancy of humanity as non existence. There are many things in our modern world that we can not see or touch but in which we believe. Gravity, waves, etc.. are classical examples.

Answer 2

there is a theory that fundamental particles, which clearly includes those which make up our 'brains' exist in more than one place at the same time. It has given rise to the 'tele-porting' possibilities exemplified in science fiction being a real possibility for the future. Currently I am drawn to the possibility that we exist as a 'brain' which is not only resident in our physical 'earthly' body but elsewhere.
Perhaps our 'earthly' existence can be thought of as 'work experience' for our overall self which is our 'brain totality' ie that part we are currently aware of plus the other/s which we are not but have cause to believe may exist.
One of the factors leading me to speculate as above is my understanding that death is accompanied by a sudden and unexplained reduction in the body's weight.
I am new to this question/answer forum and have probably not explained things very well, so make due allowance.
I did ask the question whether anybody had any knowledge of the apparent weight-loss on death but had no replies.

Answer 3

To add to my previous thoughts, here are a few facts:
FACT: The Bible has been proven historically true.
FACT: The verses used were taken from the King James Bible which was translated directly from the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts.
It has been said that faith is impervious to reason. Each person regardless of what they believe, has based their beliefs in faith. However, reason says that we must be here for some reason. Reason says that the facets of life are too intricate to just have happened by chance.
Heaven is a bribe? I don't think so. It's a perfect, wonderful place that is better than any place we could imagine in life. My faith is more than just a hope of something better in the future; it is my entire life; it gives me a joy that can only come from God. I don't need to look inside of myself to find the "something that is missing." God was that something and now He fills that void and gives me a peace I can guarantee no one has without Him.
Some may think that it is better to at least live as if there is nothing after death. It is a pleasant thought, and if I were wrong in my beliefs, the worse that would happen is that life would be over. However, if a person misses out on God's plan and finds himself wrong, how tragic that would be. I don't think that I'm better than anyone else because of my faith, I would just like to know I'm helping someone else.

Answer 4

I believe in life after death usually you are with people very familiar to you they are called group souls i would guess you have been here before not your first or second time or you wouldn't be asking this question Ive read that you keep reincarnating for unfinished business with others and evolve to a high level and keep learning new thing and experiences Brian Weiss and Sylvia brown has very good books on this subject some Christians and Catholics believe in different things i believe in god and i also think we come here over to learn i hate it but Ive been to a past life regression and Ive seen my different lives and dont you think it causes us to live better treat each other better no lieing or stealing or killing if we believed in the after life i sure hope so

Answer 5

I've heard that before, that once you have achieved something like enlightened or something, then you become an angel. But, I have thought about this a lot since '97, that the people whom commit suicide they come back and wouldn't they feel totally ripped off. You will not know if it is your first time or sixty time, they erase your memory every time you die. You start from being a single cell organism to something higher in the food chain, then when you reach human form, you do something right and you achieve angel hood or something like that.

Answer 6

Well I think you have a little rest and then when you are ready you come back but if you don't want to, you stay there looking at others down here, until you've made up your mind if you want to do it again or not.

The conditions are, you'll have a different body and forget the previous one on the next journey otherwise you can choose to just stay and not come back.

Basically you have a choice otherwise it would be a waste of time if someone keep coming back and committing suicide again and again when they really don't like it here.

Answer 7

You pose an interesting question in terms of reincarnation and one no has been able to answer in this life. There are many beliefs and theories about life after death. I am with you in that I cannot subscribe to the view that we are here today and gone tomorrow nor that we become fertiliser for daisies. I think the Biblical view of life on earth being the beginning of eternal life which goes on after our deaths fits better and gives a greater value to our humanity and our existence.

Answer 8

Fact: the human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

Fact: the concepts of an afterlife, of gods, spirits, etc. have only been around for a few millenia.

Fact: these concepts were invented and promulgated by ignorant barbarians as an attempt to explain the world around them, before there was a such thing as science or epistemology.

Fact: most of the books of the bible were written by people who were never there, as second- or third-hand accounts decades or even centuries after the events they claim to tell about.

Fact: the books of the bible have been heavily edited over the centuries, with passages or even whole books being re-written or omitted to fit the theological and political climates of the time.

Fact: the books of the bible have also been subject to extensive errors, misinterpretations, and differences of opinion in interpretation as they are translated from one language to another and from that to yet another language.

Knowing all this, how can ANY religion be viewed as anything BUT the invention of men? I know this may not be what you want to hear, and I doubt I'll do much harm to your faith; faith is remarkably impervious to reason. But we atheists are nothing like what the church leaders are fond of charicaturing us as. We are freethinking individuals who are able to see the Big Picture without the blinders of religion. We do not live in despair, quite the contrary; freethought is incredibly refreshing, liberating, and empowering.

We are not nihilists, but lovers of life who see it as all the more precious because there's no eternal afterlife. We do not need the bribe of heaven or the threat of hell to be good people, we believe in being good for its own sake.

We are not enemy of the Theists. Our quarrel is with irrationality, wishful thinking, superstitions, intellectual dishonesty, and all other forms of thinking that keep mankind mired in darkness, ignorance and hate.

Answer 9

No thee doesn't have to be something else, I fully believe that this is it, after I die NOTHING will happen. And I leed a normal life. In fact I think I leed a slightly better life than most people because I am not worried about what is going to happen when I die. There is no reason to try and figure it out... YOU WON'T some of the smartest people ever have tried and failed so don't think you can do any better.

And I think Einstein said it best...
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein

Answer 10

Firstly, none of us know what happens when we die. However, there is a really useful book by Raymond Moody called Life after Life which I found an interesting read. Also try visiting a Spiritualist Church - all useful information to help you make your mind up about what is true for you.