I have been talking to myself about this idea since roughly 1990. For the longest time I have felt that it was my duty to put this idea out there.
We have the capability (God given I assume) of choice and through this choice to create.
We have the capability to experience what we have chosen and created.
Choices and creation are not without consequences.
Good choices will typically yield good/pleasant consequences. Bad choices will typically yield bad/unpleasant consequences.
In this physical world our experiences are typically limited to our own senses and our own point of view.
Which, depending on the nature of the creation and its impact beyond yourself, or not, might mean that you have 100% of the experience in the here and now … or just a very small portion of 1% in the here and now and the rest somewhere and somewhen else.
What if — we fully experience all that we choose and create from all points of view – in what we call the afterlife?
The implications of this thought, if true, are that good choices and good creations will likely yield good/pleasant experiences from many if not all points of view (what might seem like a version Heaven) and alternately bad choices and bad creations will likely yield bad/unpleasant experiences from many perhaps all other points of view (what might seem like a version of Hell).
Let me try to say it a different way — you show up at the ‘Pearly Gates’ and they shunt you into an immersive theatre experience wherein you basically get to relive your entire life, not from your perspective but, through the experiences of all that you touched (directly and indirectly) while you were alive. You get to relive all the love, joy and happiness that you created in others — or alternatively all the pain, anger and fear that you created in others.
All the various versions of the ‘Golden Rule’ imply something like this. What goes around comes around is another way of saying it.
The notion I am putting forward is that the perhaps we need more than just this physical world to experience the wholeness of what we have created. I am further postulating that this is not an optional thing.
In this scenario there is no need for you or others to judge anything – by fully experiencing your creations from all perspectives you will come to know what it is that you have done.
You can no doubt think of many activities of humanity which seem like bad choices when viewed from this frame of reference. Equally you can probably also identify things we do which would seem like good choices.
We all get to live in a world where we don’t have the absolutely for sure answers as to what happens after death – despite the various religious pronouncements .
This is really a very simple idea and I do not think it is in any conflict with other religious teachings.
I am suggesting that you consider this thought as a useful alternative by which to guide your life, your choices and your creations.