The WHWWD Thread

Paraphrasing Michael Newton (the between lives hypnotist) people rejoin like minded communities where they compare experiences and learn from mistakes, plan future lives while they take up residency in this other sphere of life. They find jobs that are community related, they learn to manipulate mental energies that allow them to cause changes in material universes, they tour other modes of existence such as life as other creatures on other planets. They populate ephemeral planes, mutative to mentation and enjoy the various acts of creation as they gradually evolve their personalities in some kind of celestial hierarchy.

Paraphrasing Jurgen Ziewe the out of body traveler, author and artist people who have passed populate a plurality of mutative mental spheres much akin to Michael Newtons cosmology, surrounded by like minded souls.

Let me know if I've misrepresented either author, its been a couple years now since I read their works.

Taking survival as read for the purposes of this thread, I find it quite hard to be sure what an afterlife will be like. It seems to me much more difficult to reach any degree of confidence than the question of survival itself.

The way I have approached it is to look at as wide a spectrum of after-death experiences as i can digest and form some sort of provisional view based on my subjective assessment of the purported communicators.

I’m inclined to think that at least initially we experience the afterlife in a way which gives us some point of reference from the life we have left. I think I’d probably find anything too different pretty difficult to process and disorienting. The fact of survival itself seems to be quite a shock to many.

Most after-death communication through mediums appears to support the idea that initially there may not be much difference, to the extent that some find it hard to accept they have died at all

Although  there is often an acknowledgement that there is a process of development beyond that point, the details are often very sketchy.

Am I answering along the lines you were asking?

Am I answering along the lines you were asking?

Yes - exactly along the lines I was hoping for.

I really enjoy The Good Place on TV - it is a light-hearted satire on afterlife beliefs but it manages to pose some great philosophical and ethical questions. One recent episode had Chidi's ex-girlfriend arriving in the "Good Place" and explaining that, as a neuroscientist, she could always explain the experience as a delusional hallucination of the dying brain. I think that you are right in that, even when presented with the reality of an afterlife, many will either deny the fact they have passed over or try to rationalise away the experience because of a lifetime of ridiculing the very idea.

Yes - exactly along the lines I was hoping for.

I really enjoy The Good Place on TV - it is a light-hearted satire on afterlife beliefs but it manages to pose some great philosophical and ethical questions. One recent episode had Chidi's ex-girlfriend arriving in the "Good Place" and explaining that, as a neuroscientist, she could always explain the experience as a delusional hallucination of the dying brain. I think that you are right in that, even when presented with the reality of an afterlife, many will either deny the fact they have passed over or try to rationalise away the experience because of a lifetime of ridiculing the very idea.

Ah good. I’ll give it a bit more thought in that case. 

As for choosing to see what conforms to our own preconceptions and not what is reality, I think most of us suffer from that from time to time even in this life don’t we? I know I have lol

Sooner or later though reality makes its existence impossible to ignore. Then we either live with cognitive dissonance, learn to adapt or suffer the consequences don’t we?