One of my loyal email subscribers contacted me about death, reincarnation in the afterlife, and keeping your memories from a previous incarnation.
I couldn’t find the answer to that question, but I did learn that you can tap into past lives with regression therapy using hypnosis.
I know some people don’t believe in reincarnation.
However, much of my research shows me that our souls reincarnate into another physical body sometime after death.
I cannot confirm if we pick our bodies or our parents or if we get what we get.
This article will also discuss what happens when we die.
Where do we go?
What happens on the other side is that our 3D reality is a game to be played with complete amnesia.
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Death And Reincarnation
We all, at one time or another, contemplate what happens when the body dies.
It happens to us all, but where do we go? Is there life after death?
Without having any evidence, many people create a belief system around it, whether it is a religious dogma, a New Age, a philosophical angle, an agnostic “There may or may not be an afterlife” approach, or the pure atheistic or conservative scientific viewpoint that there is no afterlife.
What are we doing here on this planet at this time? Why are we here? What should we be doing? What would we be doing one hundred years ago, one thousand, ten thousand years ago?
What happens to the soul after you die? Where do you go?
Is there an “in-between life” area where you review your previous life experience?
So, in the spirit of “Paranormal October Month,” where I write about topics I usually wouldn’t—subjects that are “out there,” so to speak—I will delve into death, reincarnation, the afterlife, and the life review process.
This is a research paper since I don’t have any experience with the afterlife. I’ve never had a Near Death Experience, NDE, so I can’t write from personal experience.
I’ll do my best to cover as much as possible about the afterlife in this article.
(FYI: This article is for informational purposes and is not meant to be the absolute truth. As with anything you read, research and come to your conclusions.)
Dolores Cannon – The Afterlife
I have a copy of Dolores Cannon’s Book, Between Death & Life; Dolores was a regressive hypnotherapist and psychic researcher who began her work in 1979. She passed in 2014. You can find a ton of her videos on YouTube.
The book is a question-and-answer type, so I will describe some answers to people Dolores transgressed using hypnosis.
Dolores states the most common description she has found the moment death occurs is a feeling of coldness. And then suddenly, the spirit is standing by the side of the bed (or wherever), looking at their body.
Also, the human body feels heavy and uncomfortable to most spirits. But when you die, it’s a lifting of the weight.
People carry all sorts of problems throughout their lives, and it’s like they carry around weight because they are heavy and laden with all these other things.
When you die, it’s like tossing them out the window, and it feels good. It’s a transition.
[I liken being in a human body while experiencing this reality, wearing a scuba suit, and exploring the ocean. While you need a scuba suit to explore the sea, it feels good to get out of the water and take it off.]
Another claim is that after you die, you rise and leave it. You go up into the light.
And then this regression patient asked Dolores have you ever dived into a deep pool to where it’s dark and murky at the bottom?
As you come back up toward the water’s surface, it gets lighter and lighter. Then, sunlight surrounds you when you break through the water’s surface.
Death was like that.
Below is an excellent Q&A about fear and why souls reincarnate. It starts after she explains to Dolores how she died of drowning.
D: Do you know where you are?
S: (Her voice is still childish.) I’m in forever.
D: Is anybody with you?
S: They’re working. They’re all busy…contemplating what they have to do. I’m trying to get the hang of everything.
D: Do you think you think you’ve ever been to this place before?
S: Yes, it’s very peaceful here. But I’ll go back. I must overcome fear. Fear is something you bring on, and it is paralyzing.
I don’t think the water was deep. I think I doubled up because of my fear. The worst thing that can happen isn’t nearly as bad as we fear.
It’s a monster in a person’s mind, and fear only affects those on Earth. It’s the carnal mind. The spirit is left unaffected.
D: Do you know one of the people’s biggest fears is dying?
S: That’s not so bad. That’s the easiest thing I’ll ever do. It’s like the end of all the confusion until you start over again, and then it’s more.
D: Then why do people keep coming back?
S: You must complete the cycle. You must learn and overcome everything to enter perfection and everlasting life.
D: Is it mandatory that you return to Earth and inhabit a body again, or do you have a choice?
S: No, for there is no have to. If it is most appropriate, yes, that might be the best thing to do. However, no rule says one has to incarnate, for who is to say that one may choose not to reincarnate forever?
It is up to the life force involved. I can stay here and learn, or I can go back. I will probably go back. I look at the peace and think I am ready for the challenges.
D: Many people ask me why we don’t remember our past lives. They think it would help a lot if we knew about these karmic connections.
S: It wouldn’t; it would make things too complicated. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to function in the everyday world if you had the memories of countless past lives constantly bombarding you?
You would never be able to concentrate on the lessons you must work out in this lifetime.
D: So, what is the purpose of reincarnation? To correct what you did in the past?
S: The purpose is to learn more. To continuously learn more. For can never you learn all there is to know in one lifetime. The purpose of living again is not to correct but to add to. Your knowledge cannot be completed in one simple lifetime. Many lifetimes must be lived to enable you to understand those lessons which you assigned to yourself completely.
There is no stern taskmaster with a whip and shovel in hand ready to bury your body, punish you on the other side, and then return you to this land with displeasure.
The experiences of life and rebirth should be viewed with a more positive outlook.
Naya’s Corner
Yvonne states that all of us are Gods, yet when we incarnate, we lose the “God Power” within us. So, on Earth, we are very human and have complete amnesia, yet when we die, we go to the other side, where we retain our “God-like abilities.”
Some of us remember this, which is why we get frustrated when we can’t do or get something we want. On the other side, all we have to do is think about something, and it appears. You can also do this in 5D.
Here, we have to go through the long process of creating in physical reality.
We came here for the contrast, challenges, and ups and downs.
Life on Earth, as well as on other planets and dimensions, is a game, as Naya puts it. We forget or don’t remember who we are because this is how the game is played.
The purpose of this life is to forget you are a Creator God. This makes the game more real. The game wouldn’t be as enjoyable if you knew you were all-powerful.
As a Creator God, you have everything you want. If you don’t have it, you can create it. Here, you have lost your “God Powers.”
Here, in this reality, you can go hungry, be homeless, or get sick. You can also start a business from the ground up and be successful. You’ve come here for the experience.
The problem many people face now is that “Us Gods,” yes, all of us on this planet, have gotten tired of this reality.
You can move up dimensions that don’t have as much contrast or duality as here, such as in 5D Reality. To do this, you must lighten up spiritually and be more like Sadhguru or Eckhart Tolle instead of being stressed out.
This 3D reality is in stark contrast to the nonphysical reality you come from.
Naya also mentions learning to laugh things off. Anger is a form of fear, and it only lowers your vibration. Remember who you are. You are a God in physical form.
Naya claims during her Near Death Experience (NDE), she did not see a white tunnel of light. She believes the tunnel is a reincarnation portal that zaps you back to Earth in a new body.
She says the white tunnels of light are now gone when you pass over.
Naya also states that life reviews are bogus. She says that the life review is b.s. to control you. You are a God; you incarnated on Earth and forgot this.
Yes, you can review your life, but it’s not about who you hurt and what you did wrong, but more about “why” things happened the way they did.
You played the game however you chose to. There is no judgment when you pass over.
Naya states the Earth is an illusion.
Not in the sense that it’s not real, but it’s like a movie. You can watch a car crash in a movie and think, wow, that’s terrible.
But it’s all done with stunt drivers and special effects.
She said don’t be scared when you’re on the other side.
The Afterlife
Wes is an online friend of mine and a brilliant researcher and writer.
Wes Penre: What is very important is that before you die, make sure you have an exit plan. Think about where you want to go and what you want to get out of the afterlife.
You could share it with your loved ones and ask them if they would consider your plan or something similar. You don’t have to have the same plan to be able to meet again, though; you have to decide that you will.
The Pleiadians fully know the traps set up for us after we exit.
If the dying person is of higher consciousness, suggesting they go in a different direction after death may be appropriate. (I advise the reader to review the paper, ”There is a Light at the End of the Tunnel–What Happens After Body Death?” if you are curious about what happens after we die).
What is very important is that before you die, make sure you have an exit plan. Think about where you want to go and what you want to get out of the afterlife.
You could share it with your loved ones and ask them if they would consider your plan or something similar.
You don’t have to have the same plan to be able to meet again, though; you have to decide that you will.
They are not always clear-cut because some information must wait for the right time. Still, they suggest that we banish our fears of dying and, in general, die with courage, using the same vigor that propelled us into this life.
They advise us to leave this world with “sweet respect and gratitude for all our creations. Death is the beginning of another grand adventure.”
They also add that we must leave with love, a clean conscience, and clear intentions to reach the next level of expanded awareness. Your spirit will take us there.
The Universe is fluid, and we have the power to break any boundaries and walls if we have the right intentions. (1)
Regression Therapy in Modern Times – A Brief Background
I highly recommend that the readers get the books “Journey Of Souls” and “Destiny Of Souls” by Dr. Michael Newton.
Dr. Newton is a therapist and hypnotist whose original purpose was to relieve people from stress and depression with the help of regression therapy or hypnotism.
After a while, he noticed that some clients started returning to previous lives and even into the between-lives area, where souls go after they depart from the body after death.
Dr. Newton has hypnotized over 7,000 people and returned them to their previous lives, especially in the between-lives area (BLA).
To his astonishment, all the subjects told the same story, only with differing subjective personal experiences. Other than that, the stories were coherent!
After a while, Dr. Newton could see a pattern and draw a conclusion, which built solid evidence. Seven thousand people don’t lie or tell the same story independently.
The Positive Version of Afterlife
I want to start by summarizing the experiences of Dr. Michael Newton’s clients.
The exact details of what happens after body death differ from case to case, depending on each person’s life experiences and advancement.
Still, according to the study, which includes more than 7,000 people, it doesn’t matter if the person is religious, an atheist, agnostic, Gnostic, or whatever belief system the person subscribes to in life; the experiences in Sitter space (time/space or afterlife) are still very similar.
After the soul has departed from the body, one of two basic things typically happens, depending on if the soul is more “advanced” or less “advanced.”
The less advanced soul may stay around for a while, a little confused over being dead and unable to communicate directly with their relatives and friends.
These souls may also try to hang on to possessions that were dear to them during their lives and which they now miss. They may also want to stay around to ensure their body is taken good care of; perhaps there was an agreement on whether the person should be buried or cremated.
The soul may want to ensure that the directions set in life are now carried out.
The soul typically leaves when this category of souls has stayed around for a while and made sure that everybody is doing relatively well due to the circumstance—leaving means that it separates from the Earth planes and is drawn towards a dark tunnel, which seems pretty much like a wormhole or a black hole in space.
Very soon, the soul is aware of a bright light at the end of the tunnel and is hurrying toward this light. Many subjects say that “side tunnels” depart from the main tunnel, but I have never heard anybody choosing that route; I’m not even sure if it is possible.
As the soul approaches the light, it grows bigger and brighter. The departed soul can usually distinguish one or more people standing in the light.
First, they are vague but are soon getting more precise; the persons waiting are either old relatives (mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents), dear friends (or soul mates), or all of the above.
These people greet the recently departed soul; quite an emotional reunion takes place, and an overwhelming feeling of love and joy fills the departed soul.
It wants to stay there forever because of the incredible sense of oneness with its loved ones.
After that, the relatives withdraw and tell the departed soul it will be assisted in crossing over by its Spirit Guide and that they will all meet again soon.
So they disappear, and the Spirit Guide, who was usually in the background but often went unnoticed by the departed soul due to their focus on the loved ones, now steps forward to help the newcomer.
The testimonies are entirely coherent when it comes to describing the Spirit Guide; it may be a male or a female, but it is very loving and helpful. The departed soul feels like it has reconnected with a very good old friend, which also seems to be the case because a particular Spirit Guide is often apparently dedicated to a specific soul.
Hence, in most cases, we meet the same Guide every time we die. In some cases, subjects under hypnosis say that the Guide can be naughty.
They are also a bit awkward, and in a few cases, they have even scared the departed until they eventually tell the newcomer that it was a “joke.”
It was the right thing to do at the moment. However, these cases are sporadic.
I want to back up here for a moment to describe the journey of a more advanced soul, as Dr. Newton puts it, and how they differ from the less developed.
Instead of hanging around after body death, they usually move on quite quickly through the tunnel and meet with the Spirit Guide.
Everything happens rapidly as if this is just some routine that needs to be done rather than necessary. Then, the soul moves on from there and typically joins the path with other souls in its soul group (more about soul groups soon).
On some occasions, the very advanced soul doesn’t even meet with its Guide immediately but knows where to go and travels to its destination directly, eager to move on.
A third category is what Dr. Newton calls the “young soul,” who has little experience in the physical world. These souls may be much more attached to people and material things in the physical Universe than “adult” and “advanced” souls.
Therefore, if such a young soul dies under trauma or sudden and unexpected circumstances, they may hang around and become ghosts.
They refuse to let go of their physical life. Sometimes, they may hang around for centuries in terms of linear time, but the ghost doesn’t consider it that long as time is different in time/space than in space/time.
Still, the lost soul’s spirit guide always tries to reach it and guide it in the right direction. However, sometimes the soul refuses to go, and the guide honors its “free will.”
Sooner or later, the lost soul will typically be released from its trauma, move on, and follow the Guide.
Lastly, Dr. Newton mentions what happens to a soul that has led a violent and criminal life to the extreme. These souls sometimes get separated from the rest after body death.
Because they are so damaged that they can’t interact with the other souls, their Spirit Guides will take them aside and work with them in a quarantine area.
They will not merge with the others until they are healed.
Kevin Williams summarizes pretty neatly what Dr. Newton explains in his series of books regarding wrong-doings and what happens at the end of a life cycle:
Three Levels of Soul Groupings
1. The Beginner Soul: The “Beginner Soul” is, in turn, grouped into two sub-categories. The first is the young soul, who hasn’t had the chance to incarnate that many times in physical form.
Secondly, we have the souls who have been incarnating for quite some time but still act immaturely and haven’t developed close to what was expected.
The beginner soul sometimes lives several lives in relative confusion, having a hard time figuring out the Earth curriculum; they are used to the supportive harmony in time/space.
They tend to surrender to the social structure of the planet and more easily fall for propaganda and the “functional insanity” that is so dominant on our planet.
They can be brilliant in some ways but often lack compassion for others, are usually self-centered, and can’t think outside the box or even independently. We have all been in this stage, according to Dr. Newton.
2. The Intermediate Soul: These souls, who are more mature than the Beginner Souls, tend not to cluster as much as the first category. This doesn’t mean they live in isolation.
Still, they are more independent than immature souls and want to develop more separately. Still, they mingle with their soul group, but not as regularly as the Beginners. This category usually doesn’t incarnate as often, either.
In the Beginner stage, we have a teacher-student relationship with our Spirit Guide, who, as I see it, is usually our Higher Selves or the Oversoul.
In the case of the Intermediate Soul, however, it’s more like two colleagues working together. We become more and more like teachers of our own. We will eventually come to a point where we can teach others and act as their Spirit Guide. In contrast, our Spirit Guide overlooks our performance once we start teaching.
Not all souls can be teachers, but that doesn’t stop us from becoming more advanced. We all have different talents and shortcomings, and we decide ourselves, in correlation with our Guides, what is best for us to do to develop as a whole spirit/mind/body complex.
It is also important to understand that when we incarnate in the physical, we still leave the central part of our energy (soul) in time/space.
We only incarnate with as much energy as we estimate is appropriate for a specific incarnation. Suppose we have decided to become athletes, for example. In that case, it makes more sense to bring us more energy than if we choose a life mainly consisting of sitting behind a desk.
This way, we can proportionally delegate energy to different simultaneous incarnations, something Dr. Newton points out in Destiny of Souls and that has also been independently confirmed by other researchers on this subject.
3. The Advanced Soul: Advanced souls are pretty rare on Earth because, as such, we have incarnated amongst other, more advanced civilizations. This makes sense because there would no longer be any reason to incarnate on a relatively primitive planet like Earth, as there wouldn’t be much learning experience.
These souls are already operating on a conscious, multidimensional level. As Kevin Williams points out, the advanced soul would unlikely seek help from a regression therapist to resolve its problems and issues.
I want to point out that in some cases, a soul that has just departed doesn’t spend much time in time/space before it incarnates again, according to the subjects interviewed. Some remember leaving their body and instantly going into a new incarnation.
Returning to a New Incarnation
When a soul eventually returns to Earth in a new incarnation, it can be a hard decision for many. According to Dr. Newton’s studies, the time spent in the between-lives area has been very harmonious and pleasant, and the soul knows it is returning to a new life of challenges.
Still, when ready, almost all souls want to move on and have a new experience in space/time because that is where we mature and help Source experience Itself.
Souls know that this is their purpose while in time/space. Still, a few decide to stay in time/space, sometimes perhaps forever, which is accepted, but these souls seem rare.
Life Review After Death
Many of my sources claim there is a life review process after death. After going through the white tunnel of light and being acclimated on the other side, you will be standing in front of a group of highly enlightened individuals who will review your past incarnations.
They will review your previous and last lives to see if your soul has evolved. This group is loving but firm.
[I would advise you not to wait till death to become more conscious of yourself and your actions. Are you creating pain for others? Are you a problem person on the planet? Is everything everyone else’s fault? Do you lack personal responsibility and accountability?]
You should start doing shadow work on the unhealed aspects of yourself now so you won’t have to have so many painful incarnations on Earth.
The Negative Version of Afterlife
Wes Penre: About a year ago, I found a lot of conflicting data regarding the spirit world and what happens to us after our physical bodies die. There was a disturbing side to this, too, so I did my best to sort this out.
Although Dr. Newton’s research is pretty solid, and this is what his subjects have experienced, are there others who have experienced something darker?
On September 23, 2010, I wrote an article called “The Afterlife Programming,” which has now been removed and replaced by this section.
I will repeat some of the information I released and add more.
In that article, I argued that we are stuck in a 3rd dimensional/density prison, and the astral plane (time/space) is a part of it. I concluded that the spirit world is just a rest area for the soul, fully loaded with holograms, implants, and computer screens that create a reality for us that is perceived as pleasant and beautiful.
I said that this pleasant environment is created to deceive us, to make us believe that the 3rd dimension is not a prison but a place to evolve.
I also asked the rhetorical question, who is the Council of Elders? Could it be that they are part of a much larger control system and are just ensuring that business goes on as usual in the astral world and that no one “escapes”?
Are we then implanted with false memories, amnesia implants, and shot down into a human body again?
These are very dark and depressing assumptions, indeed, and if I made this up out of the blue, I would be very concerned about my mental health.
But no, some suggest that the above is true and that we should know what happens when we die.
I will introduce my sources to the reader and briefly describe what they tell us. Then, we will discuss their credibility.
I will touch more on this in the following article.
Edgar Cayce’s and Other People’s Experiences in the Spirit World
The famous medium, Edgar Cayce, traveled through the tunnel to the spirit world more than once. When he did, he noticed strange creatures inhabiting the various afterlife realms he passed through.
In the first realm, horrible, vague, and grotesque forms, similar to those encountered in a nightmare, existed.
On all sides of the tunnel, he could see misshapen human forms with some body parts magnified. Some people were calling out for him, asking for help, and trying to get his attention.
Cayce’s experience is also described in the “Tibetan Book of the Dead” and other religious scriptures as Hell.
It’s a place where a particular desire has been overemphasized while in physical life. There are others, besides Edgar Cayce, who has come back from being dead for a short time, and after being revived, they speak of similar things.
Some of them describe being in a Hell of fire and brimstone. Interestingly enough (and we will discuss this later), many people who say they have been to the classic Biblical Hell are either religious or Reverends.
Arthur Yensen, a university graduate in geology, had quite a few near-death experiences in the earlier part of the 1900s.
Like Cayce and many others, he said he had experienced something called “The Void,” where there is only darkness, no light, no love…only thoughts of self and others exist.
The general idea seems to be that this Void is where souls go too low in vibration to mingle with average souls after body death.
In different religions, the Void has many names: purgatory, hell, outer darkness, prison, Gehennom, She’ol, pit, abyss, an-nar, and Preta-Loka.
Kevin Williams has done extensive research into the afterlife phenomenon. He’s developed an explanation for the Void that I agree with, and that corresponds well with Dr. Newton’s research.
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Because of Michael Newton’s research, we know pretty well what happens on the other side of the tunnel, but we don’t know who is “in charge” of the afterlife.
Pure spirit, meeting relatives and soul groups, feeling a tremendous love for everybody and everything–in that sense, the afterlife seems “benevolent” enough.
However (and I am not trying to play the Devil’s advocate here), could it be that the afterlife is still controlled by the same forces that govern our 3rd Density, aka the Anunnaki and the Reptilians?
Could it be that they trap pure spirits, full of love but naive in their “new” native state, by forcing us into this tunnel? Another hologram is on the other side of the tunnel; they exchange one holographic reality for another.
It’s OK to be benevolent as long as they know they can “shoot us back down” into a body because that’s what spirit is programmed to do–go back into 3rd Density again.
This argument could be groundless, but I can’t help but be suspicious about the tunnel. Who is in control? And who are the members of the “Council”? Who is above them?
The mindful may ask themselves, what about life on other planets then? Aren’t we living different lives on different planets? The answer is, most certainly, yes!
However (and this will be explained in another paper), the Oversoul is fragmented into “smaller” soul fragments, where each fragment is incarnated on different planets and in different space/time.
The Multiversal Journey: Beyond Death and Rebirth
As we conclude our exploration of death, reincarnation, and the afterlife, it’s crucial to understand that we’re all living in our own personal Multiverses.
Your experience of reality is uniquely yours, yet interconnected with others in ways that transcend our limited physical perceptions.
The journey of our consciousness doesn’t end with physical death. Instead, it’s a continuous process of growth and evolution through multiple dimensions and realities.
Our past life memories, both genetic and spiritual, serve as guideposts on this eternal voyage.
Consider these key points:
- We are multidimensional beings with the power to create our own realities.
- Our thoughts and beliefs play a crucial role in shaping not just our personal experiences, but the collective reality we co-create.
- Understanding the multidimensional nature of our existence can help us break free from manipulative forces that keep us ignorant of our true potential.
It’s time to awaken to the vast spiritual universe that exists beyond our physical senses. By expanding our consciousness and embracing our multidimensional nature, we can begin to navigate the complexities of the Multiverse with greater awareness and purpose.
Remember, your soul is on an eternal journey, carrying wisdom accumulated over countless lifetimes. As you move forward, strive to live with intention, recognizing that your actions in this life ripple across dimensions and influence your future experiences. In this chaotic world, let this understanding be your spiritual GPS.
Embrace the journey through the Multiverse, for it is through conscious living and spiritual growth that we prepare ourselves for whatever lies beyond our current level of existence.
⇒Please read next:
The Death Trap Article by Wes Penre
Mechanics Around Entrapment Of Souls
The Reincarnation Map Video - Where Your Soul Has Been and Where It's Going.
