What do you think really happens after you die?

[40oz]

well I know nothing about death, but according to Buddhists there are 8 stages to death in the mind, because it would take a huge post i don't feel like making to try to explain them, i will just list them.

1 mirage (you visualize things similar to mirages)
2 smoke (you visualize things similar to smoke)
3 fireflies (" " " " fireflies)
4 flame of a candle(" " " flame of candle)
5 vivid white sky-mind
6 vivid red or orange sky-mind
7 vivid black sky-mind
8 clear light

im pretty sure this all happens moments before your body actually dies, but it can feel like it takes years. pretty interesting

[geonagual]

there is only one fact we know about dying...and that is that we die..that is all we know...everything else is speculation and hopes

[cm8883]

Over the past few years, I've started to believe in reincarnation. For some reason, the "keep doing it until all the evil/bad is gone from your soul" sounds reassuring to me. Had a friend once tell me that Socrates (I think) said that deja vu was "the soul remembering its past lives". That makes sense to me.

[nicklovesweed]

deja vu "the soul remembering its past lives". yeah does make sence watched program on tv about it i think reincarnation will not happen for most people but i think it can happen it has kind of been proved there are things in life we will never know i think if we knew that reincarnation would happen we would be careless in our lives knowing that hey we going to get another chance ?

[Frickr]

this past spring, i sat with my grandmother as she was passing away from cancer. what was really touching to me, and this is something that has affected me the most about my beliefs, was that she was a devote catholic. and when the preacher from her church came over and started saying a prayer, she sat up out of bed... she had been unresponsive all day, but when he came, it was eery to see her sit up... then about an hour before she passed, she started calling out to her husban who had proceeded her in death.. while she was calling out, she was looking up to the corner of the room and doing her best to point.. it was as though she could see him coming for her... that and after seeing orbs and strange stuff in my aunt and uncles house, kind of has me believing, that the energy from the body is relieced, and your free do decide your desteny... wheather that to wait for the one you love the most, gard a place that was significant to you, or whatever, you choose in the end.

[potsmokingnome]

I beleieve when you die your soul gets reiencarnated into another life form. Cause energy cannot be trully destroyed or created, it has to come from somewhere.

[BeforeYourTime]

I'm not sure. I certainly don't believe in a god. But i believe there could be parallel and infinite universes (M-Theory). Maybe its possible to end up inside of another one.

[yokinazu]

ok heres the easyist way i can i explain it. imagine your body is a bucket. now imagine your "soul" is water. when you are born your "bucket" is filled with "water" from a giant lake. now when you die the "water" is dumped back into the "lake". when another is born another "bucket" is filled with "water" from this "lake".
now even tho another "bucket" of "water" may be drawn from the "lake" it will not be the exact same "water" that was put in. so that all the "water" eventually mixes. if you think about this it will explain past life regression, deja vu , etc. you not only remember a single past life but the lives of all the differant molocules of "water" in your bucket. and esp is simply related molocules communicating with each other. i could go on and on explaining this but i guess this is the basic idea. just something to think about

[dragonrider]

Mostly I think that when you die, nothing of you remains, and you are gone.

But there is a part of me that cannot accept that. If soemthing lives on, I don't think it is like anything our traditional religions tell us --- it's not about reward or punishment for how you lived your life. Maybe all of our experiences are gathered together, the good and the bad, human and animal, from all over the universe, all of it from every one of us, and combined together. Once we all experience all of it, we learn The Truth.

Or maybe we all just die, and everything we ever experienced is gone.

[dragonrider]

Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain--This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.