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[knight1985]

Hello everyone. I was a member here long time ago and used to read the posts. I have been to many afterlife forums, groups, and asked questions, but the answers I get are either too complicated for my little brain, or they just were trying to confuse me. I understand the afterlife and reincarnation and why it happens. But I have a few questions. I hope you will be patient and kind enough to answer them. So here goes:


1. When a person dies, the soul transcends. Is the soul "me" as in my consciousness, or an etheral entity. Meaning does my consciousness die with my body.

2. If my soul reincarnates, what happens to "me". Do I dissipate into the ether or become a record in a book. Or do I survive there on some plane with my family. Like if I had previous lives, where are those previous "people". I asked this to a few people and all I got was, even if you reincarnate, it's you. I mean, no when I reincarnate, it would be as someone else. This is a pressing question.

3. If and when I reach there, will I meet my deceased relatives? What if they decided to reincarnate? Will I meet this idea of them that I have in mind?

I know my questions may sound silly, but I've been plagued by them all my life. I most sincerely hope you reply or guide me to where I can get the answers. Thanks.

 

[mac]

I'm usually up for trying to help seekers but I've taken a look at your stats and you've been a member but not around here since 2011.....

What did you find in that time that leaves you now asking the questions you are doing? You say you understand the (so-called) afterlife and reincarnation but you've asked: "If and when I reach there, will I meet my deceased relatives?" That's pretty fundamental stuff - do you really not know what happens?

If you can put me into your picture then I'll perhaps understand what you're now looking for. And maybe then I'll be able to give you some pointers.....

 

[knight1985]

Hi Mac,

Glad to see you after so many years. I was away from these forums as I realized it was affecting my thoughts. However, recently I was very ill and these thoughts returned. I've read what happens, but the whole reincarnation thing has me confused. If I have lived many lives before, what has happened to those previous versions of me. Are they simply a record in a book, or they exist in some plane? If I reincarnate again, what happens to me, do I also become a record or do I exist on some plane.

 

[mac]

With utmost respect, and without intending to pry, may I ask if you've been experiencing emotional/mental ill health issues? I'm not a medical practitioner but I am aware how those can lead to anxieties about death etc.

 

[knight1985]

Yes I have a severe Fear of death and it has absolutely crippled me emotionally. What would you say about my questions.

 

[mac]

Hello everyone. I was a member here long time ago and used to read the posts. I have been to many afterlife forums, groups, and asked questions, but the answers I get are either too complicated for my little brain, or they just were trying to confuse me. I understand the afterlife and reincarnation and why it happens. But I have a few questions. I hope you will be patient and kind enough to answer them. So here goes:

1. When a person dies, the soul transcends. Is the soul "me" as in my consciousness, or an etheral entity. Meaning does my consciousness die with my body.

As one question but needing two answers..... Your soul is the 'real' you. It's YOU whatever name you give it. It's what animates an otherwise-inanimate body.

2. If my soul reincarnates, what happens to "me". Do I dissipate into the ether or become a record in a book. Or do I survive there on some plane with my family. Like if I had previous lives, where are those previous "people". I asked this to a few people and all I got was, even if you reincarnate, it's you. I mean, no when I reincarnate, it would be as someone else. This is a pressing question.

Another composite question.... What happens to the real YOU - your soul or your spirit whichever sits most comfortably with you - is similar to what happens for most everyone else. You don't dissipate into the ether or become a record of whatever kind - you live on in spirit form rather than in physical body form. In any previous lives the real YOU animated other bodies as individuals born to different sets of parents and with you experiencing lives as incarnates. The incarnate you - partly your spirit self and partly your physical self - are asking these questions.

3. If and when I reach there, will I meet my deceased relatives?

Yes - provided you want to meet them and they want to meet you - is there any reasons they wouldn't?

What if they decided to reincarnate? Will I meet this idea of them that I have in mind?

If any of them have reincarnated and is alive again in this world when you pass over you won't meet her/him until you're both back in the etheric dimensions. But you'll learn WHY someone has reincarnated and understand WHY you won't meet again in the etheric. That's perhaps the biggest difference between this world and the next - in the next you'll UNDERSTAND whereas in this world you don't understand such matters - at least not at a conscious level.

I know my questions may sound silly, but I've been plagued by them all my life. I most sincerely hope you reply or guide me to where I can get the answers. Thanks.

Your questions don't sound silly but I do wonder why you've not found answers to them here - or elsewhere - since you became a member on ALF in 2011..... I've been around since then and I'd bet diamonds I've been saying much the same things the whole of that time.

If my answers don't appeal to your reason then please chuch 'em in the trash and look elsewhere for answers.

 

[knight1985]

Dear Mac,

Firstly thank you so so much for your detailed answers. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Yes I was around then because my dad was suffering from an illness. Then I left as all this was affecting my thoughts. And I understand what you explained. I'm still a bit unclear about the previous versions of me. Are they existing in the afterlife with their families. As you can clearly see, my mind isn't as developed as you guys to understand these complexities. If it were upto me, I'd live on in whatever plane I go to with my family. Dunno if that's possible.

 

[mac]

Dear Mac,

Firstly thank you so so much for your detailed answers. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Yes I was around then because my dad was suffering from an illness. Then I left as all this was affecting my thoughts.

Bereavement can be an extremely challenging time. With the actual loss of the close, family member may come the desperate dread of never seeing him or her again. ALF is not a religion-based website and I don't promote my own (it's not a secret what that is) but what's found there is an explanation of what death means and also one about how it's not the end of the individual.

And I understand what you explained. I'm still a bit unclear about the previous versions of me. Are they existing in the afterlife with their families.

Try seeing life as a stage play - it's a crude analogy but maybe what follows will help you.

Each of us can be seen as an actor in a production that is only partly directed and it's unscripted. You, I and everyone else enters this world in the same way but the roles we will play are different from one another's. I don't need to explain how our lives develop and how they finally come to their ends and those roles do not repeat. We each leave the stage and our roles end. BUT then we each are free to choose another role at some point and we choose our new lives, our new roles with help and support from all the souls who know us and love us.

Without getting too deep at this point, those we have lived with or known in some other way are likely to be individuals we have known and loved for a very long time and over many past lifetimes - but each of us playing different roles and having different relationships with each other. So we don't lose contact with our current family members - if we love one another - when their lifetimes come to an end. They will be around and waiting for us when our own time approaches and in times to come we may choose new relationships with one another in new roles.

As you can clearly see, my mind isn't as developed as you guys to understand these complexities. If it were upto me, I'd live on in whatever plane I go to with my family. Dunno if that's possible.

In respect of your last point I've often heard a similar point made. To set your mind at ease, should you still feel the same after you have passed over and become re-acquainted with discarnate life - life in our natural spirit forms - and should your family members feel the same as you, then there's absolutely nothing to prevent you living together again as a family.

 

[knight1985]

How did you gain all this insight.

 

[mac]

How did you gain all this insight.

How do we learn anything in this life?