I wrote a book on this: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Healing-Remembering-Future/dp/0595427723/ref=sr_1_1/104-6772243-8472724?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177099265&sr=8-1
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I believe we go back to our "school" to process the current life, meet with others in our "soul group", and then set the blueprint for the next lifetime.

I think the best explanation is from a book called "Journey of Souls" by Michael Newton.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240783917&sr=1-1

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Dear cjd,
I personnally believe that after you die, you go to heaven. I think of it like -doing good things opens the door-
I have a friend though, who belives you reincarnate after death. Depending on how you lived your life chooses the animal you will become. (You can't reincarnate into a human twice). I think she told me the best possible animal is a zebra for some reason.

_Uncontrolible Powers_
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I truly believe we will go to heaven. Where is heaven? Sometimes I feel it is all round us now. I like to think I will still be helping people forever and ever. I would love to be an Angel visiting someone in need. Just my thoughts! This song says it for me. "I Can Only Imagine."
Source(s):
http://tinyurl.com/ddrhbq

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I'm pretty certain that a consciousness survives an individual's death, and that some form of (self)awareness remains there at least for several years after death.

By "(self)awareness" I mean that a deceased person remains aware of who he/ she was, the circumstances of their just-past life, other people who were closely related to them, etc. This allows for some limited communication between two realms, that of the living, and that of the dead, but only under certain circumstances.

I also think that consciousness, not matter, is a principal evolving entity. This implies some sort of reincarnation, i.e. a consciousness gets embodied over and over again, following a period of introspection of some kind.
Source(s):
I studied philosophy, AND I'm very interested in this whole area of so-called psychic. Also, much of my thoughts and ideas on the subject are derived from personal experiences.

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I believe what the Bible says: A believer who dies is immediately present with Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:8). An unbeliever who dies goes to hell (Luke 16:22-23).

One day, the Lord Jesus will descend from heaven, and the bodies of dead believers and all living believers will be glorified and caught up to heaven (I Thessalonians 4:16-18). Then at the end, all those in hell will be judged, and anyone not written in the Lamb's Book of Life will be sent to the Lake of Fire, which is the second death (Revelation 20:11-15). For a summary of the final stage, you can read this passage: Revelation 21:1-8.





Source(s):
The Bible

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There is no reason to think that there is any sort of continued existence beyond death.

Our consciousness resides in our brain activity. When we die, our brain dies, and in turn our consciousness.

'Near-death experiences' are not proof of anything. They've been proven to simply be the brain producing powerful euphoric hallucinations, kind of a natural defense mechanism to 'buffer' death, or an experience the brain can't distinguish from death. In fact, under the right conditions, 'near-death experiences' can be elicited in a controlled environment where the subject is in no danger of dying but undergoes similar biological circumstances. Doing this we found that 18% of people will have 'NDE's (now you see I put it in single quotes because it's not something that really is exclusive to being "near death") under those circumstances), and their descriptions of their experiences parallel those of people who have 'real' NDEs. Check out my source for more details on that--and feel free to link anyone who's claimed to have "crossed over" to it, so that they can stop deceiving themselves.
Source(s):
http://skepdic.com/nde.html

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I believe that our reality is based on a common set of functioning chemicals that evolved in a manner that causes different species to be aware of different realities.
We have a different reality than that of whales for example.
When an individual dies these chemical reactions cease to function, therefore the reality ceases for that individual, although the reality continues for the species as a whole.
Eventually, our planet, solar system and star will cease to exist, and so will those species that have failed to move beyond this solar system. Eventually, our star will explode into gaseous matter. Eventually, this gaseous matter will coalesce and combine with gaseous matter from other exploded stars to form a new star and solar system. The atoms and molecules that we are made of will be used to manufacture this new system.
It is possible that eventually, new life will be formed from the same atoms and molecules that are presently used to make up you and me.
It is possible that our realities will continue to exist in another dimension, but I suspect that the idea is based more on chemical hope than chemical reality.
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Only God or the Supream Being knows!
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Energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed.

We are composed of and consist of matter and energy which makes up the physical part of our bodies and the processes that make our consciousness and thought processes possible.

Now, if you believe in a soul or some form of spirit connected to our body, you can think of that soul as a form of energy.

If you don't believe in a soul, most likely you still believe that there are electrical and biochemical transmissions that in addition to our physical bodies help to make up our consciousness.

When we die, we in almost all cases do so because some of our physical systems fail and/or we choose to, or accidentally cause severe damage to our body's systems in such a way that our bodies can no longer operate properly.

Once that happens, all the matter that makes up our bodies eventually goes somewhere -- either it is cremated and turned to ash, etc. or is buried in the ground and is eaten by insects, worms, bacteria, etc.

The energy that formerly was a part of our systems operations has to go somewhere too.

Now, either you believe that that all or part of that energy stays together... in some form of a post-death "afterlife" and it goes to some place such as "heaven" or "hell", or becomes part of a new entity via reincarnation, or stays around in a given place as a "ghost."

Or, if you don't believe in an "afterlife" you can simply believe that it dissipates in whole or in part and goes off like any other energy would.

Me personally? I haven't made up my mind yet.. but it's based on the above. You can have that answer... I'll come back and let you know _exactly_ what I personally believe about this question after Mahalo has developed the Afterlife Interface Widget, once I'm dead, that is. :)

As far as a Photo, I'd rather not 'borrow' an image capturing the above... but I will link to a clip from a film that I think is pretty entertaining about death, the afterlife, and truly living... Albert Brooks' "Defending Your Life"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orM45tKV5n0
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I definitely believe what the Bible says. I believe in both Heaven and hell and that each individual has the freedom to choose his or her destiny while living on this earth. I also find joy in the hope that I will see my father, grandmother and close friends, who have already passed, in Heaven when my time comes to go.
Source(s):
http://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/491/

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Death is not the end of life. It is a transformation. Like you come
from office to home and change your clothes, at time of death we change
this body and get another body of lion, rat, elephant or even gods.

 At the time of death, the person we thought of at the last moment, be
it wife, son or pet, decides our destination. If we think of our cat
and die, we're going to be cat in our next life. If wife, then a woman
and if son, then a man.

What kind of body we get, this depends on what actions we have done in
our entire life. The soul or the spirit is judged according to whatever
good or bad he had done in his entire life.
The soul is entitled to go to heaven for good and hell for bad.
Here are some useful links:
Near death Experiences
Beyond birth and death
Easy journey to other planets
Life comes from life

I hope you read these ebooks.
Source(s):
www.krishna.com

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I don't think that there is any evidence for any kind of afterlife. When you're dead, you're dead.

I believe we do have a soul and it's called our brain and it is indeed very mortal. Therefore we will be gone and that will be it.

I don't find that idea frightening or sad in the least. As an Atheist, I see that there is only one life on earth for all of us and we shouldn't waste it trying to waste each other over whose imaginary friend is mightier and if people can bodily ascend into heaven on a pegusus or a cloud (newsflash: Nah, they can't)

So use the life you have, leave something good behind like good kids that can take care of themselves and an earth that they can still "use". And if a few animals and plants survive you as well and/or a legacy of artistic work, even better.
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Jack Handey said it best:

“When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmmm, boy.”
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I believe that people go to Heaven or Hell or wherever they are going. I also believe that the ones that aren't ready to go remain on earth until they ARE ready. So I guess that means I believe in God, Jesus, angels, demons, the devil, and spirits.
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Its really very hard to say that what would be happen after death rather there are lots of assumptions regarding this but personally I believe that a person can make his present life good self and may get chance to heaven after death.

"A copyeditor I once knew insisted that you should always capitalize the word Heaven. “Heaven,” he explained, “is a place. Like Poughkeepsie.”

A study from the University of Kentucky has quickly gained ground among scientists as possibly the best explanation for NDEs. Researchers there theorize that the mysterious phenomenon is really an instance of the sleep disorder rapid eye movement (REM) intrusion. In this disorder, a person's mind can wake up before his body, and hallucinations and the feeling of being physically detached from his body can occur.

The Kentucky researchers believe that NDEs are actually REM intrusions triggered in the brain by traumatic events like cardiac arrest. If this is true, then this means the experiences of some people following near-death are confusion from suddenly and unexpectedly entering a dream-like state.

This theory helps explain what has always been a tantalizing aspect of the mystery of NDEs: how people can experience sights and sounds after confirmed brain death. The area where REM intrusion is triggered is found in the brain stem -- the region that controls the most basic functions of the body -- and it can operate virtually independent from the higher brain. So even after the higher regions of the brain are dead, the brain stem can conceivably continue to function, and REM intrusion could still occur

A survey of 2,060 people showed 53 per cent believe in life after death, 55 per cent believe in heaven and 70 per cent believe in the human soul.

The study carried out between October and November last year for the public theology think tank Theos also showed nearly four in 10, or 39 per cent, believe in ghosts and more than a quarter (27 per cent) believe in reincarnation.

A further 22 per cent believe in astrology or horoscopes and 15 per cent believe in fortune telling or Tarot, the research revealed.

Half of people in London, the highest proportion in the UK, believe in ghosts, the survey showed.

Scotland had the highest number of people who believe in fortune telling or Tarot at 18 per cent and Wales had the highest proportion of people who believe in reincarnation at 32 per cent.

Theos said the comparison with the 1950s was "especially striking".

In 1950, it said, only 10 per cent of the public told Gallup that they believed in ghosts, and just 2 per cent thought they had seen one.

In 1951, only 7 per cent of the public said they believed in predicting the future by cards and 6 per cent by stars.

But the organisation said the latest research showed an increase in scepticism about certain aspects of the supernatural.

In a 1998 Mori poll, 18 per cent of the public said they believed in fortune telling and 38 per cent in astrology. A further 40 per cent said they believed in ghosts, and 15 per cent said that they had personal experience of ghosts.

Theos director Paul Woolley said: "The enlightenment optimism in the ability of science and reason to explain everything ended decades ago.

"The extent of belief will probably surprise people, but the finding is consistent with other research we have undertaken.

"The results indicate that people have a very diverse and unorthodox set of beliefs.

"Our research may point to a slight increase in scepticism about aspects of the supernatural over the last 10 years."
Source(s):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5144766/Most-people-bel...

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-life-after-death.htm

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