Afterlife - Where do we go? (ritual, moral, Creator, Earth)

[Mystic-als]

Hi all,

I wanted to post this here as an open question to Indigenous Religions and Mythologies. I believe that we don't "go" anywhere special and that our "energy" or spirit live always. This then choses to inhabit a new host (baby) and the cycle is repeated.

What does your belief say about where you go after death?

[Phil Lawton]

Originally Posted by Mystic-als

What does your belief say about where you go after death?

My people's scriptures say that we go first to Chepstow (there's a community hall in Mounton Drive) and then to a great wilderness, where lost souls wander for an eternity with no hope or light.

It's called Walsall.

[Seraphiel]

I totally agree with you Mystic-alls. Energy never dies.

[TurtleGirl]

Even though many of my spiritual beliefs come from Cherokee traditions, I really identify with the Lakota view on "afterlife."

During life you can walk the Black Road of imbalance. When you cross you are reborn in another body to learn the life lessons you missed in your previous life to become more balanced.

To live a balanced life is to walk the Red Road. One who has successfully walked the Red Road in life crosses and their spirit joins Creator, or Wakan Tanka, to become a part of everything with Wakan Tanka.

Ehanamani (Dr. A.C. Ross) explains it really well in Mitakuye Oyasin. The book gets a little weird as it goes along, but the explainations of the Lakota traditions and spirituality in the beginning and the comparisons to other major world relgions is very good.

[painted wolf]

I also lean tword the Lakota view, spititually.
From a more "scientific view" I like Carl Sagan's take on an afterlife.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. [Carl Sagan, 1996 in his article In the Valley of the Shadow Parade Magazine Also, Billions and Billions p. 215]

When I die, regardless of what happins next, I am content to know that everything I am right now will go on. Even if it is just as atoms in the Earth or in the animals that feed on my body.

wa:do

[djackson]

Has anyone seen the documentary "What the bleep do we know". It is a collection of scientists, theologians, and metaphysicists that comment on new discoveries of particle physics and unified field theory that leans towards the idea that we are all gods of our own universe, our thoughts affecting all in it positively or negatively. So following that, perhaps when we die, the universe just restarts and we choose or create a new one. Perhaps all that we are is just a interactive recording being played out by a higher consciousness that is us, interacting with other consciousness'/souls that we choose to be in our universe. I guess this also follows reincarnation, and karmic beliefs.

[Willamena]

The way I understand it, it's not so much a "where" as a "what". A return to proper being. (Not my personal belief ...yet.)

[lava]

Originally Posted by Mystic-als

Hi all,

I wanted to post this here as an open question to Indigenous Religions and Mythologies. I believe that we don't "go" anywhere special and that our "energy" or spirit live always. This then choses to inhabit a new host (baby) and the cycle is repeated.

What does your belief say about where you go after death?

it was said there are dimensions. one of them is called Berzah. that's where people usually go when they are asleep. in their dreams if they are not in physical world they are in Berzah. Berzah is not physical place. that would be the same place where dead peoples not-physical bodies go and wait until the end of the world. therefor they would be like they're having dreams. Islamic records say they would feel like they slept for a night after waiting for thousands of years in Berzah.

ps: we can see our relatives that passed away in our dreams. that means we were in Berzah. if you're in physical world in your dream and if you look in the mirror you could not see your reflection. cos body you're using wouldnot be physical and other people wouldnot be able to see you and even walk through you.

[Aupmanyav]

Originally Posted by srturtle

During life you can walk the Black Road of imbalance. When you cross you are reborn in another body to learn the life lessons you missed in your previous life to become more balanced.

To live a balanced life is to walk the Red Road. One who has successfully walked the Red Road in life crosses and their spirit joins Creator, or Wakan Tanka, to become a part of everything with Wakan Tanka.

This is exactly the same as the Hindu view, of course, we do not have the black road and the red road. The anthromorphic hindu Gods are Vishnu and Shiva, Brahman is their abstract representation. We say we merge with Brahman, which is the substrate which forms all seen in the universe. Rebirth in different bodies is for spiritual progression.

Modern Hinduism is an indigenous religions formed with merging of two streams, the Vedic Aryans of Central Asia and the indigenous philosophies of India.

[TurtleGirl]

That's very cool! I didn't know that. Thank you so much for sharing! I love seeing those parts of faith that are shared between cultures, when beliefs align such as this. It just strengthens my spiritual belief that we are all related.