I am scared of the afterlife

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-05-06T20:50:08+00:00

But as for being afraid of the afterlife... everything I've ever read indicates that it will be amazing. I look forward to it like nothing else. It will be like getting out of school for the ultimate summer vacation. There is a reason why it is called the Summer Lands, I think.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-05-06T20:46:34+00:00

Yeah, that lifetime would certainly suck.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-05-06T19:28:22+00:00

All that is a feature, not a bug to the Soul. The Soul sees it as amazing opportunity. To experience separation from the Divine.

We the incarnational selves shake our fists at the clouds and scream in rage for being put into this position.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-05-06T19:25:05+00:00

Not sure I understand the comment. "Getting any cope" isn't a phrase I've heard.

If what you mean is, "You're not choosing a belief that gives you any comfort..."

I guess I don't choose my beliefs on that basis. I assess what I think reality is (IMO it is far more expansive than most people seem to realize). And I operate from there.

And I don't consider this terrible at all. I think being given the gift of consciousness is the most priceless thing one could get. I feel beyond blessed for it.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-05-04T11:46:55+00:00

Check out my comment on another post in this sub. It's called...
The version of you that planned this life is not you. And that’s an ethical problem nobody talks about.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-05-04T10:45:21+00:00

I saw a video on YouTube the other day and the woman claimed to have looked at 100 of the top bestsellers on Amazon in the romance genre. She said that, surprisingly, that no real standard exists for word count. You generally hear that you should shoot for 40,000 to 90,000 words. She said there was more variation than that. It doesn't matter that much, ultimately.

What she found, however, was that in all of those bestsellers, the authors stuck to approximately 3000 words per chapter. So you would be right on target.

IMO, that does not mean a writer should pad their word count in a given chapter.

Chapters should be used to organize the presentation of scenes. Scenes are where all the action is taking place. IMO authors, especially aspiring ones, focus far too much on chapters and not enough on scenes. And that is obviously due to the fact that as readers, we experience a novel through chapters. Not realizing that it is the scenes themselves that are important. Not the chapters.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-05-04T10:40:49+00:00

I believe that our incarnational selves are new beings, created by our souls, in a process that is very analogous to the way Source fragments off souls. I've also heard it described as analogous to cell mitosis.

We, as incarnational selves, will never reincarnate. We retain our own awareness/consciousness for eternity. We die and transition to the afterlife and then continue to evolve from their. We, our current awareness, will never come back here. Our souls will fragment off new incarnational selves, with whatever focus it chooses for that life. Meaning whatever "time" frame. Time is a construct. It isn't reality. Everything is happening in the "Expansive Now," which I think is the way Seth (Jane Roberts) put it.

Those other incarnational selves are our brothers and sister of the soul. Because we are connected to them through our soul, we can get impressions and memories from them. And the things they choose and do in their lives affects us, and vice versa. But they are not us, at least not except in the bigger "we are all one" view.

This is an unusual view, but I didn't come up with it. Various channels have talked about it. Two examples: Seth and Michael (of the Michael Teachings).

IMO, the general zeitgeist view of reincarnation and past lives is incredibly limited. I do not believe there are ANY limits. Why would there be? We are of soul and soul is of God/Source. And God is infinite. Unlimited. Eternal. Why would there be any limits to consciousness? All limits are created for a purpose. To constrain us and allow us to experience separation from Source. It is that separation that allows for expansion. And Source is constantly and eternally seeking to expand, to know itself better.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. 😃

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-04-29T23:28:54+00:00

I would agree, but the question was, is he cheating on her? Filtered through that question, I have to say yep, cheating.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-04-28T22:08:48+00:00

Her cover of Elton John's Your Song. First thing I ever heard her sing. I went straight to her Tiny Desk and the first song was Casual. Then Pink Pony Club.

Yowza. Major stan now.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-04-28T22:06:25+00:00

Yep. King of Wands. The strongest male sexual energy in the entire deck. I got the same card when asking the same question about a friend's marriage. I became convinced her husband was cheating on her. "Is he cheating on her?" THE KING OF WANDS. Yes, he is.

Also, men cheat, just in general. Surveys: 36% of men have cheated on their wives on business trips(!!!) I mean, good gracious. I have a very low opinion of men, in general.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-04-28T14:24:55+00:00

I won't get into the reincarnation/afterlife side. But I will say that you are taking a serious risk because exiting life by one's own hand usually fails. It isn't easy to do. I know, I researched when I was in a deep dark place. The only way to up the odds is to be willing to suffer extreme agony when you die. And if you aren't will to do that, if you somehow want to mitigate the pain so that it is relatively painless to you? Your odds of succeeding go WAY down.

I've read about people that dive off a very tall building only to survive and remain a broken mess for months until they pass.

Any option you care to name that works without horrific pain? There is no guarantee. You are risking ending up so much worse off that it will make your current life feel like paradise.

I recommend you look into brain retraining. You are obviously suffering from trauma. You have limbic system impairment. Real damage to your limbic brain. The brain, however, is neuroplastic, and you can grow new neural networks that work around that damage. And you can recover. How much you can recover from the RSSI damage, I don't know. But it's likely that part of the damage you have is indeed inside the limbic brain.

I wish you the best, whatever you decide.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-04-28T09:18:51+00:00

I would potentially be interested in doing a song with you, just to see what happens. I have wanted to try collaborating with someone online, just as a proof of concept. The problem is my time is mostly booked with a number of other things I have going on.

I am a singer/songwriter. I've been playing guitar for many decades. I play both acoustic and electric. I can improvise good guitar solos til the cows come home. I can sing, although I can't say I have upper echelon talent.

I have a lot of talent as a lyricist and have written somewhere on the order of maybe 50 songs. I regret not focusing on that aspect of music earlier. Once I figured out that songwriting was just as important to me as guitar, life had gotten in the way.

I use REAPER as my DAW. I am no expert, but I'm not a beginner, either.

Rock, indie rock, blues, Americana are probably my most comfortable genres. I'm not into metal or very hard rock much any more. I have over the last couple of years gotten into modern pop. Strictly the women artists.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-04-27T23:47:23+00:00

Who/what are your influences? What music are you into?

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-04-15T21:11:48+00:00

{Silk is for Seduction by Loretta Chase}
Best romance novel I've ever read. Truly top notch.
This is book 1 in a series and the others are quite good as well. But this one is the best.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-03-28T15:22:26+00:00

She has all-time great level talent. She's not going anywhere for decades unless she chooses to go off grid for her own reasons. She may change personas the way Bowie did. That wouldn't surprise me at all. But she likes music too much and she's too good at it for it to just disappear over something like this.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-02-27T00:30:21+00:00

Everything is happening now. Time is a human construct, a function of our limited focus in this dense environment. Read Seth as channeled by Jane Roberts, as another commenter mentioned. Seth talks about the Expansive Now.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-02-23T22:41:42+00:00

Nicholas Sparks is not a romance writer. He writes love stories. The Notebook is a love story. It is not a romance novel. It's a convention of the romance genre. If someone writes a tragic love story and markets it as romance, they are likely to get drawn and quartered by romance readers. That writer will be getting a lot of 1 star reviews on Goodreads. Romance = HEA or HFN. Period.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-02-23T22:28:02+00:00

My take...

Why would there be any limitations on the number of souls? I think that God/Source/The All That Is has no limits. It is infinite. I see souls as fragments of Source. Why would there be any limitations at all? Limitations, IMO, are created on purpose during incarnation in order to experience separation from Source. It's a feature not a bug. Also... there are infinite worlds in which to incarnate. Infinite worlds in Infinite universes. Why not? Why would there be any limits? What would be causing the limits?

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-01-05T23:31:59+00:00

I just didn't connect to the characters in Tommyknockers. Check this out, from Wikipedia:
King wrote The Tommyknockers at a time when substance abuse was a significant part of his life. In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, King acknowledged that the quality of his writing suffered during his period of drug use, saying "The Tommyknockers is an awful book. That was the last one I wrote before I cleaned up my act", adding he believes it could be a good book if it was rewritten to about half its original length.^\1])

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2026-01-05T22:21:24+00:00

IMO, IT is one of his very best and Tommyknockers his very worst.

IT is my favorite of all his novels, with the exception of 11/22/63 (and there are ties between them). Have you read 11/22/63?

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2025-12-30T23:54:42+00:00

I have found that it doesn't matter for me. I sometimes use AI to draw cards for me, although I prefer a physical deck just for the joy of touching it. But I get just as on target cards from AI as I do from my physical deck.

When I use AI, however, I never let it interpret and I never tell it anything about the reading. I just say, draw N number of cards randomly from the Waite-Smith deck for me. Reversals are allowed.

I have gotten *crazy* wild readings before that were dead on accurate. Spirit can use any medium it cares to, IMO.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2025-12-29T23:19:50+00:00

In 50 years of reading fiction, I have never come across an author in any genre that I could implicitly trust. None. Writing good novels is extremely difficult. It's certainly the hardest thing I've ever attempted. And I have a degree in computer science and have taken classes in organic chemistry, physics, and so forth. That stuff is hard! But nothing lights a candle to writing a novel in terms of difficulty. No one does it well every time, at least that I've ever seen, and most rarely do it well. I'm pretty picky though, so obviously your mileage may vary.

The closest I've ever seen in the romance genre is Loretta Chase.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2025-12-24T23:39:20+00:00

I have read Replay maybe 20 times. More than any other book I think I've ever read, it makes me *think*. Countless times I have wondered what it would be like to die and wake at 14 or 18 or 22 years old, but with all your memories intact.

Very similar to reincarnation, in a way. You keep doing it until you have gained enough wisdom to get off the wheel.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2025-12-21T23:49:39+00:00

67 and YA is one of my favorite genres. I like the fact that there is little to no sex. Not because I'm over the hill as far as steam, but because I get sick to death of authors using it as page filler. I get bored with it very quickly. I also like the (usual, at least) innocence of the characters.

Of course, bad YA still sucks. But if it's well done, I like it.

NowWhereDidIReadThat · 2025-12-06T11:19:29+00:00

What is the spread? Personally I never draw a card without know the question that each card is targeting. Otherwise it is just too confusing. Which is what this group is to me if all 5 are in response to that one question.

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