What's after death?

[MinaAnd23as]

My current assumption is we go back to wherever we were before we were born.

 

[therootbeersprite]

My current assumption is we go back to wherever we were before we were born.

And what does that look like to you?

 

[Dascent]

I'm more focused (so to speak) with what happens if I don't fully live.
What happens after death is more life... another form of life as I believe we are Souls, energy and energy can't be destroyed, only transformed, converted, reshaped, embodied.

 

[FireBorn]

Honestly, I don’t think about it much. I’m focused on this life. I figure I’ve got eternity to deal with what comes next, but this moment? I only get once.

Maybe that’s wise, maybe it’s lazy. No clue. But it’s real.

 

[Mh4419]

Unfortunately, we do not have enough information about this field and I think we need to explorer more. But I was reading your comments which most of them are correct, good study

 

[therootbeersprite]

Unfortunately, we do not have enough information about this field and I think we need to explorer more. But I was reading your comments which most of them are correct, good study

Thank you! I believe that there is at least a little bit of truth in every different type of theology, religion, belief system, path, philosophy, school of thought, etc.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Unfortunately, we do not have enough information about this field and I think we need to explorer more. But I was reading your comments which most of them are correct, good study

The one that caught me off guard was in Star Trek IV.

McCoy: You really have gone where no-one has gone before, Spock. What was it like being dead?
Spock: It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame-of-reference.
McCoy: Are you saying I'd have to die to discuss your insights on death?

 

[Frater Barritus]

And what does that look like to you?

That’s the point isn’t it? We can’t conceive of life pre-birth, just as we can’t conceive of it after.

To quote the Venerable Bede

“The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the house wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your ealdormen and thegns, while the fire blazes in the midst, and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad.

The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter into winter again.

So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all. If, therefore, this new doctrine tells us something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed.”

I am yet to be convinced of any ‘new doctrine’ to tell me something more certain of life after death. However, many doctrines of faith have real world effects and benefits to their practice, so holding them as if they were true has merit in its own right.

I had a NDE and was brought back from the brink with medical and technological brilliance. I saw fuck all. Nothingness. But I’ve also felt the presence of something beyond my ken which speaks to me of more than just the material. I just don’t think that existence as whole cares too much about individual souls. We just get recycled. Whether that soul-energy is recycled in its current form or a new form is created I don’t know. That’s a question I leave to the birds.

 

[TheKEKist]

The understanding/current belief that plagues me is that asking 'what will happen after death' is much akin to asking 'what will happen during my waking life' ... We not only co-creators of our physical reality but also that of our etheric and spiritual realities as well... The difference by my estimation would be the increased diversity of thought, concept, and perception that entities of of the ethereal and spiritual realms bring to their respective areas of habitation/existence/imprisonment/manifestation.

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Additionally I do believe that there is a forced reincarnation program currently being ran. This would be through the utilization of the internal machinery that exists within our planets largest artificial satellite; the moon.

 

[MinaAnd23as]

And what does that look like to you?

Nothing, I suppose. Hard to say what it looks like to me, since I don't recall anything before birth. It would be nice for there to be some place of comfort and joy after, like the Summerlands, but I can't say with absolute certainty.

 

[aviaf]

When I sit with the question of death—really feel into it, not just analyze it—what I sense is this:

• Consciousness doesn’t stop. It isn’t produced by the brain; the brain is more like a radio receiver, tuning into a frequency. When the radio breaks, the signal keeps broadcasting.
• Rebirth feels likely, but not strictly linear. I don’t think it’s always “back to Earth, start again.” It feels more like consciousness can choose a return, or get pulled by resonance (karma, attraction, unfinished business). Sometimes human, sometimes not. Sometimes Earth, sometimes elsewhere.
• Death is a return, not a loss. Mystics across traditions often describe it as a “going home.” Like we wake from the dream of being separate, and realize we were always embedded in something infinite.
• Parallel timelines? I don’t feel that as strongly, though the multiverse idea fascinates me. My intuition says it’s more about shedding layers of illusion and expanding, rather than endlessly dodging death in other universes.
• The “nothing” answer—in a paradoxical way, it might be true and not true. The ego-self dies, leaving “nothing.” But that “nothing” is the fertile void, the Tao, the womb of all possibility.

So, if I had to distill it: death is continuity through transformation, not an end.

Chaos Magick treats this question differently—because it asks: what is useful to believe about death?

• Belief as Tool → A Chaote could believe in reincarnation for the purpose of working with past lives, then drop it when working necromancy or ancestor veneration, then embrace oblivionist “death is nothing” when seeking liberation. None of these have to be “ultimate truth.”
• Models of Death as Masks → You listed several: reincarnation, parallel universes, heaven/hell, void, ineffable. A chaos magician might say: each of these is true in the moment you act as if it’s true. The afterlife is a theater, and your chosen mask determines the play.
• Death as the Ultimate Sigil → In chaos terms, death is the final ego-dissolution. Your life is the working, your death is the casting, and what happens next is the result of your alignment of will, imagination, and belief.
• Practical Use → Instead of fretting about which model is “real,” the Chaote asks: which belief about death empowers me right now?
  • Want courage? Believe death is an endless rebirth cycle—you’ll get infinite tries.
  • Want intensity? Believe in quantum immortality—this is the one life that never ends, so live it like it counts.
  • Want peace? Believe death is a return to the void—the burden of self is lifted.
  • Want connection? Believe in spirit planes—death just means a shift in form.

In short: Chaos Magick answers “what happens after death?” with: whatever belief you choose to inhabit shapes the journey.

To me, these two perspectives don’t clash—they complement. My intuition whispers continuity and transformation, while my chaos magick brain says: ride whichever story gets you where you need to go, until the final mask drops.