Pagans only question (and those who beleive, worship, work with spirts)?

Question

Can an ignorant or angry spirit break from reincarnation and manifest his/her own personal delusion such as (quoting from Christians and catholics) a personal "hell "and "heaven", not saying i believe in heaven or hell but can a spirit who does believe in it create their own manifestaions

Answer 1

Near death experiences indicate that one's personal beliefs strongly influence what the dying see. Guilt-ridden or paranoid Christians might see visions of hell (for themselves or others). Catholics are sometimes met by Mary or other saints. Dying Jews can have visions of Moses and their personal, glorious Israel. The logical extension of this diversity of the death experience would be that a person who dies absolutely, blindly convinced that his ideas of what follows death will create his own hereafter, according to his prejudices and beliefs.

Reincarnation is the exercise of individual free will in co-existence with the manifestation of free will of everyone else. In other words, nothing forces a soul to do anything; we are entirely free agents, because having free will is the only way we can possibly progress toward spiritual enlightenment - that's what the Garden of Eden allegory is all about.

After we die, we can unite with our higher selves and tap into our eternity, recalling all the experiences of all our lives. I believe that most people, no matter how convinced they were in life that the Bible/ Koran/ what-have-you was literally true, would wake up to the beautiful reality of reincarnation shortly after death. But the stubborn ones, the hardcore evangelicals who spent their entire lives blindly bound to religious mythologies, would probably reject the truth for a longer period of time, supposing to themselves that they were captured by Satan and being tested, or some other nonsense.

Eventually, though, everyone wakes up and sees forever and his own special place within it.

Answer 2

I believe there are a small number of spirits, realtively new souls, who get confused when they die and get stuck somewhere between here and where we're all supposed to go. There are also those who have been involved with great evil in this life.. murderers.. who will dwell in a self-imposed isolation where they will reflect on their deeds until they come to terms with it. This state of remorse and isolation is the closest anyone comes to hell, at least in my views. They are restricted from reincarnation until they have found a way to balance what they have done (expose themselves to suffering similar to what they have done to others) in a future life.

I used to think "you get what you believe," i.e. if you buy the whole fire and brimstone bit and have done something awful, and believe you are hellbound, then that is what you get. But now it rather seems that we all do go to the same place, and just have different experiences there. No one gets stuck in the same place for all eternity, we're all homeward bound. :)

Answer 3

Sure. The afterlife is what we make of it, to an extent, and I think it may be possible for the deceased person to create their own little pockets of happiness or misery, if that's what they expect. But I think that's up to a point... in my opinion, there is a solid afterlife that is a certain way, and perhaps it allows for such delusions up to a point and for a certain time, but I think that after such a point and after a while, it is whatever it is supposed to be.

I guess we'll see.

Answer 4

i believe it can be much like that robin williams movie 'things yet to come' or something like that. the sould can carry baggage from its life and wallow in a self-constructed fantasy. but ultimately, the universe will pull it back into the path toward enlightenment. there are probably many versions of heaven and hell being played out, but a single soul can't resist the pull of enlightenment for an eternity. it seems that if you linger too long in a self-constructed fantasy, that you will eventually regress to the bottom of the ladder.

Answer 5

I believe there are life lessons to be learned until you can reach your personal heaven. You will keep coming back to learn these lessons until you get it.

It could be argued that someone who doesn't get it and keeps coming back, though having no consious memory of the return, may have a subconsious angst regarding another return visit, therefore creating his/her own Hell.

Answer 6

spirit is nature's way of speaking to nature... every thing on the planet emits information... they bounce off of each other till it causes a reaction.. this is called evolution... things evolve to answer questions and to produce a solution to a problem... Humans through religions sought to control this power.. what we often hear in the spirit is the christians forcing their will spiritually seeking to penetrate the sub consciousness of humanity... but nature is taking back things so echos of all the debates, arguments, lies and manipulations are very loud right now...

Answer 7

I think in order to answer this question, you'll have to really examine what "belief system" you walk with. For example, my hubby is an Asatruar (Nordic reconstructionist pagan, not a "Norse Wiccan"). Asatru has specific teachings that help people understand what happens beyond this life. Do you have something like that in your life?

Answer 8

not from my experiences
I have had Atheist spirit and Christian spirit come in communications saying how they were surprised at what the next life is like
and they all report the same things