How is life after death? According to your religion, philosophy or intuition.?

This old fool hopes that a response of this nature does not add additional confusion to this question.

Life is a matter of perspective.

Death is a matter of perspective.

Specifically:

Which life do you speak of?

Which death do you speak of?

In order for one to know what life after death is 'like', one must first experience what life is 'truly like' before one experiences physical death. A life must first reach its completeness.

One must become reborn (twice born, born again) and become"Truly Alive".

There is a distinct difference between 'a human being' and 'a true human being'.

'A true human being' has become "Truly Alive", and thus has a complete understanding of death.

Therefore, one must die before death catches hold of them, in order for one to "truly live".

This understanding does not arise from within any religion, any philosophy, on any form of Intuition.

This understanding springs forth from within the wisdom that has been carefully placed within the inner heart of every 'true human being'.

If one seeks answers, one must first seek wisdom. Wisdom allows one to understand both the question and the answer, simultaneously. Some call this splendid moment an "Ah-Ha".

The intellect cannot understand or answer a question of this nature. The human intellect is profoundly limited.

Wisdom is totally responsible for both the necessary question and the appropriate corresponding answer.

"Until one has become fully alive, one cannot fully understand death."

Becoming fully alive, is a life long process, indeed.

Peace be always with you.

in sha'Allah

al-hamdu lillah

Salaams,

Zen Buddhists sometimes say that first there is the resurrection, then comes death. It is a way of reminding one to look deeply, without expectations, at the very notion of life and death itself. Zen Buddhists are not too fond of being categorized as a religion and yet they (and I) have some insights borne from direct Knowing-As-Being which religious folks say comprise religious thought. Yet for the Buddhist, it is not a thought. It can be understood directly that the notions of life and death are as masks that consciousness wears and then consciousness draws itself into the drama, as if in a play or a dream. Until mind/consciousness somehow mysteriously, but conclusively, becomes aware of this charade, it will die, with the mask on, just exactly as it has lived. Whatever came with this mask - reincarnation, emptiness, nothingness, God - is what consciousness brings along to it's own notion of how it ends. To become awake as the Buddha awakened is the resurrection that comes before any death....but the best part is that with this ressurection comes the undestanding that there is neither birth nor death for that which is actually alive present and aware at all times. In my understanding which is not really a religion, I cannot answer your question directly because I don't recognise that there was birth or that there will be death. What happens to the physical body is obvious but that is not what I am. Nor am I that consciousness wearing a death mask. I'd be so foolish to speculate beyond this and besides, it makes no difference in what I am, have been and will always be.

Good question though!

Actually this is very much a known fact.

We rot and get eaten by maggots or some such thing. We decompose and our nutrients are reused and recycled by other organisms. This is a fact and not one that should be frightening. I take great solace in the knowledge that I am part of the ecosystem and that I am the source of sustenance for so many. Life is cyclical after all. It's not even that I will become food, it's that I am food. What better way to go than to be consumed as I consume? Again, this is fact whether you accept or appreciate it. (Note: cremation is extremely selfish, why waste so much good food?)

I hope that when I die, I will leave behind family and friends and other loved ones who will fondly remember me. OF COURSE there's an afterlife. When you die, the rest of the world moves on. There is life after death, just not for the dead.

It is also very possible to have influenced people who may not know you or remember you at all. Perhaps this answer will help you rethink ideas of life and death and in a few more years your own ideas will evolve to include something that is written here. Surely you know the power of a smile? That's why I tend to smile at strangers, you never know how your influence is felt.

Surely what I have written above can be agreed upon by all? I have described what happens, factually, when we or any other living thing dies. The question you are asking, really, is if anything more than that happens.

There is no evidence whatsoever that anything more than this happens when we die. It is extremely arrogant to assume that a part of you lives on after you die. Why do people think we're so special that we get to live forever?

After death every soul will be reincarnated into different life forms based on their energy level and will come back to earth. If you did a lot of bad things in this life, maybe you'll be reincarnated as a pig or if you produced lots of positive energy in this life, you might be reincarnated as Bill Gates. That's why some babies were born blind or disease ridden or some people were born rich and many were born into poverty etc. There is no such thing as heaven and hell. Heaven and hell happens on this earth.

I believe we have all experienced life after death (or more logically we haven't). The universe in one form or another is somewhere between 13.7 billion years old and of infinite age, and during that time we didn't exist. Just think about it, we didn't exist for perhaps all eternity and it was of zero concern to us for that very reason. It is true life in this reality is the most wonderful experience ever, but a return to that state before we existed seems certain and inevitable, indeed far more certain than infinite heavenly bliss or eternal damnation. There really doesn't have to be a purpose to life other than it is part of an eternal universe, and a return to total nothingness as it was for all eternity, is the perfect peace; no worries, no pain, no boredom and no regrets.

After birth, death. After death, birth. This is the nature of things. When we finally die to self, that is to the ego/mind level of knowing and experiencing the Creation and awaken in our true nature as Spirit that is the end of death. That is why the Bible says of that experience, "Oh, grave, where is thy victory, death, where is thy sting?

I have known several beings in this world who have remained consciously aware through births and deaths. We can all dismiss what we are unable to conceive but that does not alter the Truth but only our experience of the Truth. The Truth remains and it is up to each person to discover it for themselves.

We can say there is no God but we cannot prove there is no God. We can, however, discover for ourselves, God Is. Then there is no more doubt. Until then there is always the lurking question. Same with discovering what life is like after the death of the body.

Many imagine that Death is the opposite of Life but that is not so. Death is the opposite of Birth. Life has no opposite. Life Is just as God Is. In Truth, Life Is because God Is. They are One and the Same. The Christian bible says, "I Am the Life,,," "I Am the Way,,," "I Am the Truth,,,"

There are these little tricks that Maya plays on the ego/mind mortal state of our being. It makes what is unreal appear to be real and what is Real appear to be unreal. Another way so saying this also comes from the Bible; "The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness beholds It not." When we are of the darkness we do not see the Light that shines all around us and within us. It is there but we are blind to It. Until we experience It for ourselves we find it too hard to believe and discount those who do.

Namaste'

There is life after life and when you speak of death it means to me as an end and nothing else follows. Your body dies but not your soul. It is your soul that continues to don many bodies (vehicles) evolving spirally into perfection. Our early stages of life is merely of going into cycle of ignorance where we make mistakes and then go back to correct whatever error until self realization occurs that we keep going on achieving Nirvana. This is the reason why we are ask not to judge because everyone has his own time and his own chance to make himself up to what he should become aside from the fact that we cannot always know what is beyond a man actions and choices in his life.

If Satan who deceives man can only be tied for a thousand years, how can a man who is the victim of his deceptions be punished forever?

Heaven and Hell are both places in the mindset of the religious to keep you controlled. Try doing good not because of heaven but because it is right and just to be good and that is what is appropriate for one to be happy and be at peace with self. Being bad begets curse that will make one accountable for his errors not in being burned to hell but in karmic incarnations correcting them.

You may suffer for it but for sure it is never getting burned in hell for how can a spirit get burned when it is not a physical matter that possess no feelings?

As a spiritualist I believe that we cross to the other side upon death to meet with our spirit guides and other helpers... we then talk through the life we had and move on... sometimes though, I believe that a spirit is trapped in this world if they feel they have unfinished business. They need to be crossed over by a medium. I also believe in reincarnation of the soul once a spirit has lessons learned for the next life and every time you die, you can meet with all other relatives that have died in the families you have been born into. I believe God is the main, most important spirit that allows all this to happen.

No one knows. How can a Human Mind Conceive of the Creation and Mind of God

“Until, when death comes to one of them, he says: ‘O my Lord. Send me back to life (on earth) in order that I may do good deeds in the things that I neglected.’ By no means! It is only an utterance that he says. And before them is a barrier (preventing them from returning: the life of the grave) until the Day (of Resurrection) they are ressurected.” (Quran 23:99-100)

http://www.islamreligion.com/category/62/