Blogpost 2: Journey Of Souls

After introducing Life after Death in Mythology, Now I still wondering where do Souls go after death? I find it hard to find some articles in my topic but still I'm willing to search and search and search until I satisfy myself. I know my topic is so hard to search but it's still interesting.

Where do Souls Go After Death? First, According to Dr. Richard P. Bucher this article entitled Where Does the Soul Go After Death? (Paradise or Soul Sleep) ? on the site orlutheran.com ."First, they hold that at death the soul does not leave the body; both soul and body sleep until the Day of Christ’s return. Second, they teach that the soul has no consciousness as it sleeps; it is aware of nothing. What is the basis for these two premises? They base their argument primarily on passages that speak of death as sleep (or unconsciousness) and passages that speak of bodies awakening on the Last Day."



After reading the articles I found out that this is more according on the Bible. The word Soul Sleep is another term for Death, because when someone who died is just looks like he is sleeping,

After a little search I found many answers in my question.
It says that the souls of the unbelievers go to a place of punishment until the Last Day. The souls of the believers go to be with the Lord in Paradise.

Now moving on to another article this article is entitled Death and the afterlife, by Ryuho Okawa found at happy-science.org.

This article says that,

"During the first seven days or so, the soul of the deceased person usually remains close to the place he/she lived and tries to follow the lifestyle he or she was used to. The destination that souls take after death varies, and souls can be divided into three groups accordingly:

1. Souls that cannot begin their departure to the Spirit World and become “earth-bound spirits” (ghosts) 

2. Souls who fall straight to hell, because living on earth, they led a life full of evil and were possessed by more than four or five hell spirits at the time of death. 

3. Souls that depart to the Spirit World with the help of a “Spirit Guide”.

(c) River Styx

To explain further After a person accepts that he/she is dead, “an expert spirit guide” comes to meet him. An expert spirit will take the person to the River Styx, which divides this world and the next. Crossing the River Styx in essence this represents a border in the person's consciousness and once the person crossed the river, he can't return back to the physical world. After the person crossing the River Styx he/she will go to the place called " Mirror of Truth", this place is like a movie theater that the movie is all about your life where the record of his/her life is projected on a Mirror while many Souls are there to watch it revealing his/her thoughts to the audience. Then after the screening is over, the person will realized the result and if there are lessons that must be re-learn and then he/she will go to the most suitable place for LEARNING in the SPIRIT WORLD. The Spirit World is "Like Attracts Like" Person goes to the world inhabited by the people with the same his/her type of mind. If that person is inhabited with the wrong person he goes to Hell and likewise he goes to Heaven.

After reading this articles I found out that there are many beliefs if where really our souls go. Some people says that when your dead your soul or spirit begins a new life in a new body can be a human, animals or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life's actions.

No matter what people believes in I still knows that after our death we will be with our beloved God.

Blogpost 1: An Introduction to Life After Death

Is there really a Life after Death?

Back when I was in high school my teacher asked us, "For you what is Life after death?"

I paused for a seconds, that time a question asked in my mind. "Is there really a life after death?"

I wonder if Afterlife is true? and now I came up to this topic because I want to answer the question in my mind.

 I am Melodie Tandoc an I am really interested in this topic because I really want to search if Life After Death is Real. That after we die where our souls will go? And that's why I'm interested in this topic.

In Mythology, According to John H. Taylor an article entitled Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt I found this at booksgoogle.com: "Of all the ancient peoples, the Egyptians are perhaps best known for the fascinating ways in which they grappled with the mysteries of death and the afterlife. This beautifully illustrated book draws on the British Museum's world-famous collection of mummies and other funerary evidence to offer an accessible account of Egyptian beliefs in an afterlife and examine the ways in which Egyptian society responded materially to the challenges these beliefs imposed."

I learned that In Egyptian Life after death,  The dead were provided with food and drink, weapons, and toiletry articles. Tombs were often visited by the family, who brought new offerings. The Egyptian strongly believed in life after death, the idea of passing from life on earth to life in the hereafter was somewhat obscure, and the concepts concerning the afterlife were complex. They believed that they  hoped not only to extend life beyond the grave, but to become part of the perennial life of nature.

After a little research about the Afterlife in Egypt, and this another article is entitled Greek Mythology Stories | The Underworld Life After Death in Ancient Greeks by  Raju in the website Bukisa.com in the article of Raju,

This is the some part of it: "Ancient Greeks believed in Life after Death as per Greek Mythology and religion. The life after death in Greek Mythology is interesting. There is an underworld created specifically for the dead who are transferred to this place by a ferryman of the dead called Charon."

After Reading the article above I realized that in the Greek Mythology . This life after death is not like the other religions which talk about Heaven and Hell. The life after death is in the underworld for both the people who did good deeds and also others who did bad deeds. There were places for punishment and torture for those who did bad deeds. This is like Hell in other religions or Mythologies. There was also a beautiful place known as the Elysian Fields that was reserved for heroes who have done good deeds. This is like Heaven in other religions or Mythologies.

After reading the articles I realized that some articles says that Life after Death is real, even in Mythology It says that Life After Death is true. Maybe some people that is not real but still I believed in Life After Death. I therefore conclude that Life after death in is very an interesting topic. Now I know that in Greek Mythology Life After Death is doesn't have Heaven or Hell that they're both same.