It struck me that like so many people today, I could have talked about the Christian view of Heaven and Hell, the Muslim view of Paradise, The Hindu View of Reincarnation...and on and on ...but isn't it interesting that we live in a time when we have access to so many points of view, whereas centuries back one might have been immersed in only one culture?
But the question was to me ... and what a great opportunity to answer the question from my own life and experience as well as the researches I've done into religions and spirituality.
First thought for me is I wouldn't start with life AFTER death but with life BEFORE death and consider that human life is a spectrum that goes from the physical to the spiritual. The physical part obviously has a very limited life span and at death goes back to the earth. Then you have the mental and the emotional lives which are less physical and can either have a strong centre of gravity in ones life or not. If ones thoughts and feelings are like leaves in the wind, blown along by current opinions, newspapers, TV and media ..then perhaps it also has a limited life. But if in a life, a person comes to their own values, principles and views, then perhaps they are building a mind which can continue to live beyond this life.... particularly if their values are in tune with the ways of the universe -constructive, constant, refining and evolving.And then there is the soul and the spirit - how to describe those? They are like life or light itself - a little bit of 'god stuff' in us all...so when we live our life do we give them opportunity and sustenance ... does what we do light them up ... light us up ?
So, when thinking about what happens when we die...I feel a useful place to begin that ponder is how we actually live ! Do we experience and connect to some of the magic of the universe - perhaps when we listen to the sweet harmonies of Mozart or stand under the night sky or look in the eyes of a child or a loved one ?
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