Death might be this:
Science – whoever s/he is – says that energy just is. It isn’t created and can’t be destroyed. Energy transforms.
Therefore, when we die, our life force doesn’t end. It can’t die because what is our life force but our energy? Everything that made us who we were is released into the universe. This may be the basis of our images of ghosts as transparent forces reluctant to leave their earthly cocoons. So our good and bad energy swirls around our old haunts (see what I did there?) and the still living people we don’t want to leave. Our loved ones might be comforted by our spiritual presence or they might be scared.
Perhaps our good and bad energy separate at death. I like to think my good energy will make sure my most loved ones are okay. My bad energy might have an entirely different agenda with certain liars I’ve known. Our good energy is the best of what we were, our love, our generosity, our compassion and our humor. Our bad energy is the worst of us, hate, jealousy, pettiness, and greed.
After checking on our beloved survivors, our good energy will take off in search of our loved ones who “died” before us, including our pets. Like ours, all of their bad energy will have separated (except the pets, who never had bad energy). Our reunions, and forever, will be glorious because we all will be the best of ourselves and only that. We will mingle with souls we never knew but should have – soul mates who may have been carnate at any time in history. So much to learn, so much to celebrate. Nothing to dread.
Our bad energy will roil and rage and pout, racing around looking to vent its negativity. As our bad essence chases self justification, excuses, and revenge, it will meet up with other miserable spirits doing the same. Our angry spirit will seek out those pre-deceased souls it feels wronged by. In this swirl of mean, there can be no happiness. Our bad selves will imagine taking horrible revenge, but, instead, we will never find our prey. Our post-life Hell lies in our anger and in being eternally denied our vision of justice.
Assuming there is a prime mover in charge of our Heaven/Hell split, there may be hope for our bad spirit selves. People always wonder why God, under any name, allows so much suffering among human and other life forms. Could it be that suffering on earth is, in fact, actual Hell? Suffering here on earth, at least unjustified suffering, may be applied against what we might otherwise be facing upon our deaths. If, on balance, we went through our life with more good than bad intentions, our in life suffering might absorb some or all of our bad energy, not leaving much to swirl around in our post-death Hell scape. Credit for time served in life-Hell is only fair and God has got to be fair. Right?
If God is fair, I expect that as the eons go by, strips of our bad spirits may peel off and join our good spirits. Especially if our bad spirits are able to express true remorse for their baseness on Earth. Their is likely a hierarchy in Heaven: the most complete spirits (think “souls” if you like) enjoy the greatest happiness. So, the more of our bad spirits that can make their way out of Hell, the better our eternal Heaven experience will be – and probably the more influence we will have. No one will have a bad Heaven existence, but those whose spirits are most in tact, who have less bad spirit swirling around in Hell, will know contentment, positive excitement, happiness to a higher degree.
Observations 