What does it happen
after death?
Why do we fear death? There are many reasons for that, but the main one, out of question, is the unknowing about how happens the passage and what it comes afterlife.
This may be an inappropriate subject on these days, when it has so many hopes attached to the beginning of a new year. Besides, we live in a world that already gives us uncountable problems, and frankly, thinking about death is something really no purpose. In exception of those who feel it closely, they understand that their final time in this planet we met is approaching.
However, it happens that the call spiritual life – life after death – it is not a goal to be achieved, but solely a step among several experiences that men have to face it during his path toward perfection. This goal was appointed by God for all of us.
The people of our time have fought enough to get along in life and thus enjoy the blessings that the civilization progress has engendered. Undoubtedly, everyone dreams about happiness as a possible and understandable goal. But such concerns may be a disaster if we overlook the inherent spirit values, to insure a smooth existence.
Information provided by spirits tells us that life after death is like a continuation of bodily existence with difference between the values and the concerns there which are taken into account our condition as immortal spirits, in face of earthly life presents as a fast and fleeting and transient bid.
Indeed, however long our stay in this plan could be, the years spent in a corporeal existence are a small expressive period time compared to the eternity that our spirits have it.
Men live their life fully after death, with their virtues and weaknesses, feelings and emotive memories.
Because of it, death should not scare anyone. Once it is not losing anything when it happens, besides material body, what it is something unnecessary to the free spirit. Free spirit that will express in another body, similar to the first one, which Paulo de Tarso used to call it as spiritual body and Kardec defined it as subtle involucre of soul or perispirit.
The passing hits us in different ways, according to our individual moral status.
Spiritism teaches: “The main cause of greater or lesser easiness of detachment is the moral state of the soul. The affinity between the body and the perispirit is proportional to the attachment to material, which reaches its maximum at the man whose concerns are related exclusively and solely to the life and material pleasures.” (Heaven and Hell, according to Spiritism, Allan Kardec, Part 2, chapter 1, item 8).
There is a straight connection between how we live on this world to the beginning of life after death. In view of the soul detachment, followed by bodily existence, it is something similar to someone waking up to be reborn to a new bodily existence. The soul detachment is the beginning of his reentrance in the spiritual world, as it calls.
Two things can be concluded after the teachings above.
This is the first one: It is necessary a better understanding the meaning of live, which is not just the few years that make up our bodily existence.
The second conclusion is that, submitted to progress law, we have a bounden duty to work for our moral improvement, recognizing ourselves with the spiritual life and if necessary, giving up immediate benefits of a good future. It is a reality which according to Spiritism happens nonstop before our eyes.
