What happens after we die?

As we know there are many ideas on the subject of what happens after death, many superstitious beliefs, and no one really knows anything for certain. Some think that we go to heaven or hell. For example, hoping to be reunited with loved ones or harboring other unrealistic expectations. Others are convinced that there is nothing after death, and that we simply disappear, vanish from existence. And there are those who believe in reincarnation. Here, either people see reincarnation as some kind of punishment, that we are forced to come over and over again into this place of suffering, this Samsara, while for others the idea of reincarnation gives hope for immortality. People basically choose to believe in things that they were told as all these concepts, including the belief that there is no life after death, are present in the collective mind. Therefore, we need to examine these beliefs and theories critically and try to see what is the actual truth, to gain an insight into the afterlife, or ‘afterdeath’.

It has been a long time since I wrote an article about Selective Reincarnation. There was much truth in that article. The premise of it was that unless we solidify our sense of me, we will perish inevitably upon the event of death. How can one survive the death of the physical body, if their me is not conscious of itself? Here, there is literally ‘no one’ to endure the end of life. However, I need to point out that at that time, Me was understood differently. The center of the person was considered to be Me. But the person is not Me. It is only prior to its awakening, Me is experiencing itself merely as the person; meaning that while unaware of itself, Me is able to establish through its emanation a center of identity of the conscious thinker in the front of the head; it is a necessary compromise in our evolution. But when our me is finally realized, the person moves to his correct, secondary position as being merely a center of our me in the mind. And at the higher levels of realization, the person eventually becomes reabsorbed into Me, but this is not the subject of this article, so I stop here. Our point of interest is to determine whether the concept of selective incarnation is correct or inaccurate.

I have begun again to think of this subject recently, in the light of recent revelations. Even before talking about selective reincarnation, we must ask an honest question – do people reincarnate at all? Or perhaps this just another of many fictions conjured by the human mind?

Collective Consciousness

The truth is in between, so to speak. But before I address it, I must speak about the collective consciousness. When we enter this world, the collective consciousness is transmitted to us via our DNA, on a physical level but also on the mind level and spiritual level. What do you think you are to start with? Buddhists who do not believe in self, came up with the idea that it is just the mind that reincarnates creating the illusion, the apparition of self. The truth is the opposite, it is the self that incarnates or reincarnates, but it cannot incarnate without the information, knowledge, or memories provided to it by the collective mind.

You are the personal representation of the collective consciousness. OK, from a higher perspective, we are the representation of the universal me, but this is rather inconsequential for most people because they cannot relate to it directly.

So the question here is two fold, is reincarnation real, and if so, who truly incarnates?

I said before that most human souls are the new souls, who never existed before, while some did exist and continue their evolution here. And though very true, all of it is more complex.

When a ‘new’ soul incarnates, it is born out of the collective mind. It carries the memories of the human kind in its DNA. It appears to be individual, but it is in fact collective. So it is a new soul, indeed, but made of an old matrix of the collective mind. The collective mind is very important, because we could not exist without it, but it has serious limitations too. Collective mind is like your own mind, just larger, more complex, and regrettably, very ignorant, and filled with much rubbish and negativity.

Assuring our survival

So when a human is born, he is imprinted with the information from the collective mind. Not very profound, but rather basic information, just reflecting the belief system of most people and how they tend to translate the meaning and purpose of their existence. Its main prerogative, while essential, is rather basic – to assure our survival.

Why do we want to survive so much? To what end? Human life is mostly a misery and yet everyone clings to it so desperately and often dishonorably. Well, it is not in our control. It is imprinted in our DNA. But it also has a higher purpose, to keep us in existence to the point of realizing Me. It is the will of the universal me that we must continue our existence at all cost. There is much sacrifice in creation. Even if most people are living in hell of their own making, from the standpoint of the Creator, the fact is that those few who realize Me justify the very purpose of creation. A bit like ‘the end justifies the means’. There is a lot of suffering here, but yet we should not forget that there is also much beauty and joy in this amazing life. Life loves living.

All people are precious. Remember this, not to look down at people who have no capacity or interest to seek their Me. Even the unconscious me or the collective me is beautiful. Everyone has the sense of me, the gift from the creator. If people exist entirely fused with the collective mind, it is ok. There is much beauty in the collective mind too. Perhaps it is not the purpose of everyone to realize Me. People play different roles. You would not expect butterflies or seagals to understand the theory of relativity, or to question the nature of their reality, would you? You love them for what they are. There is something playful in forgetfulness where the sense of me spontaneously expresses itself through the body and mind, while remaining innocently unaware of itself. That’s why many people like observing or connecting to animals, whose blissful ignorance of self and simplicity is somehow pleasant to us. Of course, the great difference between animals and humans is that they are not living in the mind, and are more innocent, so they suffer less, still somehow existing in the garden of Eden. For those who are spiritually mature, not having Me is like missing their own heart in the chest. But those souls that are less developed, and do not seek Me, are not in touch with their suffering, and the absence of Me is not felt as painful, it remains unnoticed. Neither do they care to have Me nor are they able to notice its absence. They are suffering a lot, but on the psychological level, not the spiritual one.

We are all created by the Universal Me, but our subconscious mind is made of the information and memories drawn from the collective consciousness. But then, when we begin to exist as the personal me, we create through our experiences the personal subconscious mind of our own as well. Remember, your mind is not just yours, it is collective too. We live inside the collective mind. It is a mind that is all around you, and it never sleeps.

Incarnate rather than re-incarenate

Let’s try to see again, what does it mean that most of the souls are the new souls, existing for the first time? It means that they do not re-incarnate but ‘incarnate’ into the human body for the first time. They do not bring into the body their own subconscious mind because they did not exist before. So initially, their mind is only the collective mind. If you observe people, you can see that their identity is mostly collective, and their individuality is just beginning to form.

Now we need to ask an important question that most people are really interested in – what happens when one dies. If one’s Me is unconscious, that personal me becomes recycled by the collective mind, and goes into the dreamless slumber. When one dies, he or she returns to the collective mind, with all the information they managed to accumulate. They don’t go to heaven or hell, they don’t go anywhere. But what dies? And what people cling to in their fear of death? It is just their personality. They call personality the soul. What is personality? It is the memory of oneself that revolves around the unconscious sense of me; it is also referred to as ‘ego’. You see, for that ‘personality’ to endure, the personal sense of me has to endure, but it cannot do it without the body unless it remembers itself. But as personality dies, you should not think that that person is entirely erased from existence. His memories of who he was are infused with the collective mind, and then in the event of incarnation, when another Me comes into this world, it becomes linked to those memories; in fact, a number of souls can absorb those memories as their own This is how someone can, theoretically, remember their previous lives, even though they were never theirs, since the person who had them was dissolved. So you remember someone else’s memories, thinking that they are your own, even if that person no longer exists.

What I am trying to say, that such a soul that incarnates for the first time is really neither new nor old, but in between; it is given personal memories stored in the collective mind, so it feels that it incarnates again as the same Me. In this way, even without having individuality, there is a sense of continuity of self. But you see, you cannot really say that this specific person reincarnated, because these personal memories alone do not have connection to any particular Me. Memories are the base for consciousness, so they are important. It is not about remembering your past, but rather that they are already inside you; memories and how you processed them allow us to form individuality and be human. In a way, you are made of your memories but also of the collective memories. That Me given to us is not yet personal, in the sense that your me and my me are the same. What differs between us is how this Me manifests itself in this world, how it expresses itself, what kind of intelligence is ‘attached’ to it, and how it has evolved; this what makes each one unique, because each one of us is a unique expression of Me. We feel like everyone has a different me, but this is an illusion. It is the same Me, so really it makes no difference ‘who’ incarnates, it is Me.

The misconception of reincarnation

It appears that in a way, the concept of reincarnation is another misconception. But to really grasp it, you need to understand, and come closer to the collective consciousness.

Collective consciousness is like a being, like a vast presence giving birth to countless souls. It is a living organism holding the knowledge and intelligence of all humanity, and the whole universe, in fact. And it branches out in all kinds of complicated ways through the whole globe. Each country and each nation, ethnic group, culture and subculture creates its own collective mind. What is a ‘country’? It is a collective me. What is religion? It is a collective me. But then this local provincial collective mind mixes with the neighboring countries, nations, cultures and subcultures and becomes larger, and richer. It grows and keeps changing all the time along with history. Some nations or cultures, like the less educated ones, (education is the sharing of information in the collective mind), tend to resist this change more, and keep living in their past collective mind, as if their time stopped, while others are more flexible. Religions are a good example. They refuse to change, and most often want to convert others into their outdated beliefs. There is a struggle and competition for influence and dominance among religions, politics and ideologies and this rivalry, this contest happens not just in the mind of individual people, but within the collective consciousness itself; different parts, sects, factions of it are seeking dominance because the more people identify with a certain paradigm, the bigger it becomes. When the negative parts of the collective consciousness spread, it is not unlike a contagious virus spreading, or a toxic waste contaminating the world; to give an extreme example, in times of war when fear and national hatred spread beyond control. On the other hand, when positive parts spread, goodness and intelligence can become bigger in the world.

Nowadays, the collective mind becomes more global, more unified, because people can easily travel to other countries, different races are migrating and mixing together, different cultures are mingling together, and especially because of the vast communication network such as the internet, which allows the collective mind to talk to itself through its different parts throughout the whole planet. We live in times of radical globalisation of the collective mind, and it is rapidly approaching a climatic place that is both hopeful and terrifying. It may just explode, destroy itself, taking everyone with it, or it may begin its awakening. The collective mind in an instinctive way seeks reconciliation of all its internal contradictions and unification within itself of all its parts, because it is divided in so many ways that it is about to get mentally sick and lose its remaining sanity; not unlike a personal mind having multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia. But the danger here is that it tends to seek this unification by promoting dogmatism and despotism, like you know ‘the third reich’, or Chrisitanity in the middle ages, or communism, or ‘Facebook’. This kind of globalisation does not honor our Me, and seeks to suppress our freedom, individuality, and evolution of intelligence. But how can the collective mind become sane, if we are insane, we are ourselves psychologically disturbed and fragmented? The true unification of the collective mind can happen only through us first becoming sane, through our own personal awakening, becoming fully conscious on all levels, emotional transformation, and through realization of true love.

Between the universal me and the personal me

Collective mind is placed in between the universal me, and the personal me. The universal me cannot create our soul without the collective mind. It can create Me but not the soul as a whole. To say it plainly, the universal me gives birth to our personal me, but the initial creation of the mind, when one is born, requires absorption of information from the collective mind. For a new soul, it is the creation of an entirely new mind, while an older soul already comes with her own intelligence. Still that intelligence needs to be linked to the collective mind so that it can absorb essential information from the collective human knowledge in order to be able to function. What is the difference between the personal me and the soul? The soul is the awakened, holistic body of Me (not just the innate sense of me) realized in unison with its intelligence. It is the collective mind that adds to each me specific memories and predispositions. But we too, create the collective mind through the input given from our personal mind, so it is a complex and dynamic relationship. Of course, from a higher perspective the collective mind is also the manifestation of the universal me, but from a great distance. The mind of the universal me itself is transcendent to the collective mind; it is the mind of God, inconceivable to any living being.

But keep in mind that while the collective mind is a manifestation of the universal me, it is manifested through us, because the mind of all people creates the collective mind. Universal me manifests the collective mind through us, through our minds, and we are the incarnations of the universal me. Universal me does not create our mind directly, but through its incarnation as the personal me. Because on a personal level we exist in a relative state of distinction from the universal me (on a deeper level we are the universal me), while being its emanation, we are given the free will to think our own thoughts. Universal me has given itself freedom to think its own thoughts as a human. But as our thoughts also create the collective mind, because we are many, the collective mind too influences what kind of thoughts we are thinking; and some people rarely think their own thoughts, but mostly the collective thoughts due to undeveloped individuality. I hope this explanation makes sense to you. To better grasp the relationship of the universal me with creation, you need to see the difference between direct and indirect creation. For instance, our me is the direct creation of God. But our mind is his indirect creation, because it is created by our personal me. God is creating reality through his extensions that incarnate as the personal me. Only the universal and the personal me are capable of creation. Only Me can create. This is why we are co-creators of reality, together with God. God creates our me, our me creates the mind, and the mind creates the collective mind, etc… But in order to become conscious creators, we must be conscious of the creator in us, our Me.

I usually use the term ‘collective me’ in a pejorative sense, as the one that lacks individuality, awareness of itself; as one that cannot think for himself, has no access to free will, and only circulates collective thoughts and beliefs in the mind, falsely assuming that they are one’s own. Similar to what Gurdijeff meant when saying that man as he exists is a machine. And while it is so, there is also a positive connotation to the term collective me. If you look closer at your Me, it is not entirely your own, it belongs to everyone. We are not just ourselves, we are all the souls. We are not alone in this world, we are here together, and all people are interconnected. On a deeper level, our Me is not collective but both individual and universal, standing alone as the supreme reality. But as it enters creation, it also begins to share itself and its intelligence with all the living beings. What it means is that even though its sense of self is unconditionally individual, it also exists through everyone else. We could coin a new term, ‘conscious collective me’, or ‘awakened collective me’, in order to say that our Me is both individual and collective, while on a deeper level being universal. And there is an even deeper level of seeing reality, from the universal me. This is where you see that everyone is Me and there is only Me. You can see how all these levels are valid and how beautifully they coexist in the body of the universe.

More developed souls

Finally, what happens to the souls that developed their individuality and come closer to their Me? They can be reborn based on the knowledge of themselves and the continuity of their evolution. They are not merely recycled by the collective mind because they own their Me. And what this means is that their personal memories and intelligence, their whole human consciousness in fact, all of it is embodied in Me…their personal me owns them; in contrast to unconscious souls who do not own anything yet, even their memories.

Even if they did not properly realize Me, by the fact that they are just closer to it, their individuality is preserved, at least to some extent. You do not need to be consciously on a particular spiritual path in order to be connected to Me. In fact, the opposite is true, most spiritual teachings take you away from Me. Many souls are in between, you know. They are not awakened, but can be intuitively connected to Me. Something happens in them internally that they begin to develop a certain intimate connection with their innate me; their me, without even consciously looking for itself, gently begins to intuitively remember itself. So as they reincarnate, while remaining intertwined with the collective mind, they begin slowly to exist from Me. So to say it again, the memories of who they were before, stored in their subconscious mind, become intertwined with the collective mind, but based on their connection to Me, they enter the waking state of our world with continuity of their own unique evolution. But as I pointed out, it is not black and white scenario because there are many possibilities in-between, depending on the level of our evolution; the levels of how deeply one remembers Me. So if you expect a simple explanation whether there is a reincarnation or not, or who really reincarnates, assuming anybody reincarnates at all, you will be disappointed. This is a very complex topic, and I am trying to shine light on it, but at the same time showing you its paradoxical nature which the linear mind simply cannot grasp.

Your evlotion is not just yours

I would like to address another subject. Your evolution is not just yours, because all your knowledge, intelligence, your subconscious mind, your emotional development, basically who you are, all of you is directly going into the collective mind. One of the most important goals of our evolution is not just to change ourselves, but to change the collective mind. The collective mind is learning from us. It is really important. The collective mind, though very complex, is also in many ways very baic; why? Because we are primitive and have not managed to give it positive and intelligent feedbacks in order to change its content. Most of what we do is add more nonsense into the collective consciousness. Collective mind does not have the sense of me other than through us. So awakening of Me in a particular person, brings the knowledge of Me into the collective mind, thus the collective mind awakens through us. But since the collective mind is very vast, for it to significantly change, a greater number of people would have to awaken to have such a profound impact.

We often speak of transcending the collective mind or going beyond it. In the light of what is written above, does it still apply? Not entirely, but to some extent, yes. Awakening of Me represents transcendence of the collective mind, because the collective mind is unaware of Me, it is in the state of forgetfulness. So in this sense, to awaken Me, we must go beyond the collective mind which simply does not have this knowledge yet. Another meaning of going beyond the collective mind, is to awaken higher understanding within Me that transcends the unintelligent and ignorant construct of reality imprinted in it, with which most people identify with. We all exist within the collective mind, but even though we are born within it, and so is our individuality, our individuality at a certain point transcends that mind by becoming Me; it also begins to transcend the notion and perception of reality ingrained in the matrix of the collective mind. Collective consciousness is only called ‘consciousness’ figuratively; it is not conscious. It is just a mind, only collective. However, while the transcendence of the collective mind is a valid concept, it is not that same as negating its importance or trying to discard it. In fact, through our evolution we are supposed to transform, illuminate and awaken the collective mind itself, so that the universal me can actually enter it, in a similar manner as it can enter our own personal mind We are in a very dynamic relationship with the collective mind; it is not a static state because humanity keeps creating it all the time. But the more conscious we become, the more conscious and meaningful this creation becomes: we begin, helping the birth of the new collective mind, which then can be truly called collective consciousness for it becomes conscious as the manifestation of Me.

If you look for the highest good of all, this is about transforming the collective mind through our light, goodness, and love. This is also why emotional transformation is needed, and we emphasize it very much recently – changing our relationship with emotions by surrendering to them in the body, so that our sympathetic nervous system can come to the state of peace, wellness and self-love. If you dwell in negativity, in stress and emotional turmoil, all of that is immediately transferred into the collective mind. This is why the collective mind contains so much of human negativity. Truth is that the collective mind has to be healed as well, and this can be done only through our own emotional transformation and awakening. The collective mind in its own way is evolving towards the spiritual awakening, towards becoming conscious, which is the merging of intelligence and Me. Please, try to really see it with your own eyes, that to transform the collective mind is to help every one that exists; every soul, every creature, every being, every Me. This is where you come to the highest love and unconditional compassion. Everyone is Me – this is love.

In the Westworld tv show a question is asked: “What is Real?”; the answer is ‘That Which is Irreplaceable’. So let me ask you this question, what is real? What is irreplaceable? Only Me is real, because it cannot be replaced. It can incarnate in different forms and minds, but it itself cannot be replaced. Your mind can be replaced, your memories changed, or memories of other people given to your mind, but not Me. Collective consciousness cannot give you a Me of another person, because there is only one Me. As we contemplate what happens after death, we are taking a peek into eternity. What is real? Only that which is irreplaceable, Me. As before and as in the now of humanity, this cosmos and the collective mind, all of this is a dream, but a dream from which you are supposed to awaken. To awaken does not mean that the dream vanishes but rather that it becomes real. Real Dream, Real Illusion. As we awaken our me, we are not going into some great beyond, we are not going anywhere, we remain here, but what this awakening does is that this very dream, this grand illusion, becomes CHANGED – changed into Reality, because it becomes conscious of itself as Me.

Death – real or misconcetion?

The final question is: is there really death, or is it another misconception? What if we never die, what if we are immortal in the here and now? As you climb up the highest mountain of this reality and look at this world from its highest peak, you may be able to glimpse that which is immortal; you will be able to see the One who knows no death – Me.

So to conclude, the ‘selective reincarnation’ is true in the sense that only those who establish their individuality as Me can maintain the coherent continuity of evolution and embody their uniqueness as the conscious manifestation of the universal me. The existence of others is mostly collective and discontinuous on the level of personal becoming. But no one really ever dies. And above all, the essence of each living being, which is Me, never dies. So we see here, two levels of truths, each one is true, and both are true depending how you look at reality. You do reincarnate and yet you never die. It is a quantum logic, a quantum conclusion that two opposing or contradictory things can be true at the same time. Such as that there is you and me, and others, and yet there is only Me. That there is only Me is the highest truth, but that Truth includes in itself a lower level of truth, the relative truth that you are a human being too. And you see, what we are trying to actualise is the truth of Everything. Truth of Everything is how the universal me sees Everything. There are also levels of untruth, of the false, which reflect human ignorance, and they need to be discarded. Sometimes a lower truth can be valid for a period of time, as some kind of half-truth, but then after running its course it becomes untruth and therefore loses its reason for existing. .

Where does the conscious soul go when her physical body dies? As we said, she can be reborn in the human body, but she might not be reborn immediately. She returns to the universal me where she continues to exist in the Creator’s nearness, in the realm or space of his immediate proximity. This is known as the celestial plane of existence. Here, there are two choices for the soul, either to prepare for her next incarnation, or to stay and start a new journey of evolution beyond the human consciousness.

Indeed, all that we remember can be forgotten, and then what are we without our memories? But there is one true memory that when fully remembered, fully brought back, can never be forgotten, the remembrance of Me. And this what immortality really is – Remembering Me.

I would like to end with the poem:

No Man is an Island

by John Donne

No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend’s Or of thine own were: Any man’s death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.