Nurse writes book on near-death". BBC News. 19 June 2008. Archived from the original on 31 March 2009 . Retrieved 6 August 2008. Hippolytus of Rome pictures the underworld ( Hades) as a place where the righteous dead, awaiting in the bosom of Abraham their resurrection, rejoice at their future prospect, while the unrighteous are tormented at the sight of the " lake of unquenchable fire" into which they are destined to be cast. Find sources: "Afterlife"Christianity– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Rossbach, Stefan (7 August 2019) [1999]. Gnostic Wars. Edinburgh University Press. p.49. ISBN 9781474472180. In this nonfiction work, Evidence of the Afterlife , Long presents one of the most compelling arguments for the existence of an afterlife yet.

Afterlife in Buddhism is complex, consisting of an intermediated spirit world, the six realms of existence, and the pure land after achieving enlightenment. Ancestor worship, and links to one's ancestors, was once an important component of early Buddhism, but became less relevant already before the formation of the different Buddhist streams. The concepts and importance of afterlife vary among modern Buddhist teachings. [94] [95] Jhaveri, Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai. "Death the Awakener". Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019 . Retrieved 21 January 2018. Park, Robert Ezra (2010). Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p.90. ISBN 978-0-691-14597-6. Fólkvangr: (lit. "Field of the Host") The other half join the goddess Freyja in a great meadow known as Fólkvangr. [28] According to Edgar Cayce, the afterlife consisted of nine realms equated with the nine planets of astrology. The first, symbolized by Saturn, was a level for the purification of the souls. The second, Mercury's realm, gives us the ability to consider problems as a whole. The third of the nine soul realms is ruled by Earth and is associated with the Earthly pleasures. The fourth realm is where we find out about love and is ruled by Venus. The fifth realm is where we meet our limitations and is ruled by Mars. The sixth realm is ruled by Neptune, and is where we begin to use our creative powers and free ourselves from the material world. The seventh realm is symbolized by Jupiter, which strengthens the soul's ability to depict situations, to analyze people and places, things, and conditions. The eighth afterlife realm is ruled by Uranus and develops psychic ability. The ninth afterlife realm is symbolized by Pluto, the astrological realm of the unconscious. This afterlife realm is a transient place where souls can choose to travel to other realms or other solar systems, it is the soul’s liberation into eternity, and is the realm that opens the doorway from our solar system into the cosmos point of view. [110]Know that the life of this world is mere diversion and play, glamour and mutual vainglory among you and rivalry for wealth and children" (Q.57:20) [Quran 57:20]

a b Rustomji, Nerina (2017). "Beauty in the Garden: Aesthetics and the Wildān, Ghilmān, and Ḥūr". In Günther, Sebastian; Lawson, Todd (eds.). Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam. Islamic History and Civilization. Vol.136. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp.297–307. doi: 10.1163/9789004333154_014. ISBN 978-90-04-33315-4. ISSN 0929-2403. LCCN 2016047258. Archived from the original on 19 April 2023 . Retrieved 2 December 2021. The noun "purgatorium" (Latin: place of cleansing [51]) is used for the first time to describe a state of painful purification of the saved after life. The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius -a -um, cleansing), which appears also in non-religious writing, [52] was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing. An important recent work discussing the mutual influence of ancient Greek and Indian philosophy regarding these matters is The Shape of Ancient Thought by Thomas McEvilley. The Poetic and Prose Eddas, the oldest sources for information on the Norse concept of the afterlife, vary in their description of the several realms that are described as falling under this topic. The most well-known are:Peter van Inwagen. "I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come". Archived from the original on 10 June 2007. John 5:24 "The New American Bible". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on 2 August 2013 . Retrieved 8 March 2014. Among the many volumes of Yitzchak Luria, most of which come down from the pen of his primary disciple, Chaim Vital, are insights explaining issues related to reincarnation. His Shaar HaGilgulim, "The Gates of Reincarnation", is a book devoted exclusively to the subject of reincarnation in Judaism. When questioned by the Sadducees about the resurrection of the dead (in a context relating to who one's spouse would be if one had been married several times in life), Jesus said that marriage will be irrelevant after the resurrection as the resurrected will be like the angels in heaven. [45] [46] Paulsen, David L.; Cook, Roger D.; Christensen, Kendel J. (2010). "The Harrowing of Hell: Salvation for the Dead in Early Christianity". Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture. 19 (1): 56–77. doi: 10.5406/jbookmormotheres.19.1.0056. ISSN 1948-7487. JSTOR 10.5406/jbookmormotheres.19.1.0056. S2CID 171733241. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022 . Retrieved 28 December 2022.

Jesus also maintained that the time would come when the dead would hear the voice of the Son of God, and all who were in the tombs would come out; those who have heard His "[commandments] and believes in the one who sent [Him]" to the resurrection of life, but those who do not to the resurrection of condemnation. [47] Lemmon, Cheyenne (12 February 2023). "Hachiman, Japanese God of War | History & Symbol". Study.com.Heaven, the heavens, seven heavens, pure lands, Tian, Jannah, Valhalla, or the Summerland, is a common religious, cosmological, or transcendent place where beings such as gods, angels, jinn, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or live. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to earth or incarnate, and earthly beings can ascend to heaven in the afterlife, or in exceptional cases, enter heaven alive. Some heroes of Greek legend are allowed to visit the underworld. The Romans had a similar belief system about the afterlife, with Hades becoming known as Pluto. In the ancient Greek myth about the Labours of Heracles, the hero Heracles had to travel to the underworld to capture Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog, as one of his tasks.

Brown, Jonathan A.C. (2014). Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 978-1780744209 . Retrieved 4 June 2018. limbo – definition of limbo by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia". Thefreedictionary.com. Archived from the original on 15 May 2020 . Retrieved 8 March 2014. The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. [1] The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, which carries with it one's personal identity. Belief in an afterlife is in contrast to the belief in oblivion after death. Rebirth can take place as a god (deva), a human (manuṣya) an animal (tiryak) — but it is generally taught that the spiritual evolution takes place from lower to higher species. In certain cases of traumatic death a person can take the form of a Preta or Hungry Ghost – and remains in an earth-bound state interminably – until certain ceremonies are done to liberate them. This mythological part is extensively elaborated in the Hindu Puranas especially in the Garuda Purana. The Upanishads are the first scriptures in Hinduism which explicitly mention about Afterlife, [100] The Bhagavad Gita, a famous Hindu script, says that just as a man discards his old clothes and wears new ones; similarly the Atman discards the old body and takes on a new one. In Hinduism, the belief is that the body is nothing but a shell, the consciousness inside is immutable and indestructible and takes on different lives in a cycle of birth and death. The end of this cycle is called mukti (Sanskrit: मुक्ति) and staying finally with the ultimate reality forever; is moksha (Sanskrit: मोक्ष) or liberation.The book of 2 Maccabees gives a clear account of the dead awaiting a future resurrection and judgment in addition to prayers and offerings for the dead to remove the burden of sin. Gregory Shushan, Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience, New York & London, Continuum, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8264-4073-0. The teachings of the Baháʼí Faith state that the nature of the afterlife is beyond the understanding of those living, just as an unborn fetus cannot understand the nature of the world outside of the womb. The Baháʼí writings state that the soul is immortal and after death it will continue to progress until it finally attains God's presence. [91] In Baháʼí belief, souls in the afterlife will continue to retain their individuality and consciousness and will be able to recognize and communicate spiritually with other souls whom they have made deep profound friendships with, such as their spouses. [92] It is common for families to participate in ceremonies for children at a shrine, yet have a Buddhist funeral at the time of death. In old Japanese legends, it is often claimed that the dead go to a place called yomi (黄泉), a gloomy underground realm with a river separating the living from the dead mentioned in the legend of Izanami and Izanagi. This yomi very closely resembles the Greek Hades; however, later myths include notions of resurrection and even Elysium-like descriptions such as in the legend of Ōkuninushi and Susanoo. Shinto tends to hold negative views on death and corpses as a source of pollution called kegare. However, death is also viewed as a path towards apotheosis in Shintoism as can be evidenced by how legendary individuals become enshrined after death. Perhaps the most famous would be Emperor Ōjin who was enshrined as Hachiman the God of War after his death. [109] Spiritualism [ edit ]