When your physical body passes, does your energy simply return to the One Source, becoming everything, and nothing, as your own consciousness merges with Go, or do you continue your spiritual journey in the eternal here and now with the ability to consciously merge and separate your Spirit with the choice to merge with God or to experience life in the spiritual or physical realm?
Answer:
The experience and reality you manifest after you leave your physical body will vary depending upon your state of consciousness, just as your present reality is a function of your state of consciousness. For the enlightened, fully self-realized person, there is no compulsion to return in physical form again. He or she has a choice at that point.
Those whose sense of self is still identified with the body, mind or ego to whatever extent, will then carry that configuration of awareness forward and that will represent the seed around which future life karma will coalesce into another physical embodiment. This life will offer new opportunities to become self-realized and liberated from the cycle.
This is obviously a large topic and is further discussed in my book Life After Death.
Love,
Deepak
