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Life after Death (the after-life)!
What is after Death, is there life after Death. Is Death just the beginning or the absolute end? Please read this article on death which explains what happens after we die, then continue reading for proof and more detail. Every religion talks of something happening after death. In eastern philosophy reincarnation is accepted, in western religions they talk about Heavenly reward for good deeds or faith in the religion or its master.
Science has now proved without doubt the existence of life after death; how did they achieve this? By studying thousands of Near death experiences (NDE), out-of-body experiences (OBE), and interviewing children who had memories of past-lives. Even the Dalia Lama was tested as a child and found to be the 13th reincarnation of the Highest Lama.
In his book Evidence of the Afterlife, radiation oncologist Dr. Jeffrey Long proves the after-life. You can read more information here and the original time article here.
What is Reincarnation, do we reincarnate after death
Reincarnation is the process where a soul attaches itself to another body after death. Our mind (also called our consciousness or spirit) enters the new body which then starts the life-force (the being becomes alive). The mind holds the instruction or mission for the new-body and also the memories and characteristics from past-lives, the soul experiences the life of the new-body by connecting a silver cord to the spirit.
The time between bodies can vary, in some cases immediate in other cases thousands or millions of years. If enough spiritual merit was collected during life, that could earn a sojourn of thousands of years in Heaven.
The body does not need to be the same type as the previous soul-experience. For example, if in one life the soul was attached to a female human, next life it could be a male-human, an animal or even invisible being.
This site and this one have lots of information to prove what is after death and that reincarnation is real, one only needs an open mind to understand the after-life.
Maybe one life we were mathematicians using an abacus, now we are programmers using computers. One life we were the dad and another time the son, now we are the daughter and the son we had becomes our mother., etc. The sad thing is, we waste a human life, a very precious and valuable human life due to our stupidity of not wanting to change ourselves for the better. We are born around the people we have the most bad-karma with; and we have bad-karma with them because we did not erase it previously, or maybe we created it in a past life.
The reason we have the same type of life and family/friends is because we did not complete our karma (or lesson) with them, so God had to arrange to put us back together. In relationships (family members, lovers or friends) the primary reason we are together is because we have left-over unresolved bad karma.
After death we look back on our life and when we see wasted opportunity it fills our heart with regret causing us to stagnate or even regress a little.
Of primary importance is to live life wholeheartedly, no regrets. Keep the moral codes of the universe which is the same as the moral codes or precepts of most religions. And think positive, think of God often.
At the time of death what you are thinking dictates what you want and where you will go, to a very significant extend. The eastern belief system states our last thought or strong desire determines our next journey, the after-life.
The family we are born to is our choice, based on karmic connections. Not because we love them but because we have things to work out with them. In most cases family members are not our best friends, we have issues in past life. So God puts us together as family in order to use love to erase the friction we had.