Afterlife

"As human beings, we tend to view life in absolute terms, as if it were the "end all and be all" of existence. As a result, the Earth plane has a powerful grip on the human psyche, both individually and collectively. But the truth is, we are not human beings. We are spiritual beings, having a brief human experience. And, the Earth is not our home. It's a tiny spec in the universe, where we come to experience limitations and challenges, which otherwise we'd have no way to know. During the remainder of our time here, it's important to shake off limiting attitudes and attachments which bind us to the Earth plane. If we can cultivate a spiritual perspective, we'll be able to accept the ups and downs of Earth life with greater equanimity. And when this brief Earth experience is over, we'll progress through the stages of death more easily and quickly."...Life Beyond Death: How to Prepare for Death

"What psychedelics encourage, and where I hope attention will focus once hallucinogens are culturally integrated to the point where large groups of people can plan research programs without fear of persecution, is the modeling of the after-death state. Psychedelics may do more than model this state; they may reveal the nature of it. Psychedelics will show us that the modalities of appearance and understanding can be shifted so that we can know mind within the context of the One Mind. The One Mind contains all experiences of the Other. There is no dichotomy between the Newtonian universe, deployed through light-years of three-dimensional universe, and the interior mental universe. They are adumbrations of the same thing."...New Maps of Hyperspace...by Terence McKenna

• Afterlife (Wikipedia)
  "Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by a god, gods, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life. In contrast, in systems of reincarnation, such as those in the Dharmic tradition, the nature of the continued existence is determined directly by the actions of the individual in the ended life, rather than through the decision of another being."
• Life Beyond Death
  "Death is essentially the dissolution and transformation of the psychic impressions we gathered during life. In this process, the self which is constructed in our imagination gradually passes away. Our true self (spiritual body, or soul) remains intact and actually evolves through repeated cycles of birth and death."
• Life Beyond Death: Stage Four - The Spiritual Plane
  "The Spiritual Plane marks the beginning of what is real and eternal in creation; where the finest impulses of experience merge with Divine Consciousness, where duality merges with unity and time gives way to the eternal Now."
• Life Beyond Death: Instructions for the Departed
• Afterlife (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)...by William Hasker
• Plane (esotericism) (Wikipedia)
• The Planes (of existence) (Wikipedia)
  
• Esoteric cosmology (Wikipedia)
• Life After Death: Where do we go after death?
• Heaven & Hell in the Afterlife, According to the Bible
• Eschatology - Mind, Soul and the Afterlife in Christianity and Buddhism
• Current beliefs about the life after death by two groups: conservative and liberal Protestants
• Rebirth, reincarnation and past lives: The afterlife in Buddhism, Judaism and Celtic Christianity

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