Thoughts About The Afterlife

Felt like I had a cold or allergies all day today, so I haven't done much more than prayer and meditation and sit on the swing in they yard and talk with Irene. It's nice just having normal conversations with her about normal stuff.  Even though I'm feeling kind of sick, I have no feeling of panic or loss or sorrow.  We finally got some cooler air and breezes with a front that came in and I they feel heavenly.

There are some things I read in the forum, and some parts of the conversation I was having with Irene that made me think differently about the whole Heaven concept.   Basically, people here relate to the afterlife, for the most part, as some kind of spiritual or wisdom thing.  Most people think there are bad, or "not a good" places you go if you're not "spiritually evolved" or have a "high vibration".  The usual culprits for low spirituality are lust, addiction, cruelty, greed, etc.  People see other people as not very spiritually advanced or view your energy as being "negative".

I don't see why any of that would matter with regards to afterlife dimensions. It just seems to me to be a dysfunctional way of looking at the concept of consciousness tuning into and interpreting experiential potential in dimensions of varying degrees of responsiveness.  I don't think the frequency potentials care what is being tuned into or how it is being interpreted.  I think the whole idea of good and bad, or high-vibration or low-vibration is just traditional judgments coloring something that doesn't have any such perspective.

Also, I find it odd the kind of afterlife structures some people insist everyone experiences - like sin, or karma, or levels, or what we look like,  what is and is not available to us in the afterlife, what activities we can or cannot engage in. It seems to me that a lot of what is going on with all the diverse and even conflicting afterlife experiences and information is that people are experiencing an incredibly diverse, perhaps infinite collection of afterlife dimensions that are tune in and then interpreted by various individuals and groups.

More and more it seems to me that the question "what is the afterlife like" should be replaced with the question "what do I want the afterlife to be like?"  Look at it this way; we don't ask others what our life here will be like as we are growing up because it is up to us to make life here the way we would prefer it and work towards those goals.  The afterlife, supposedly comprised of dimensions far more reactive to consciousness, should be expected to be even more responsive to our focus and intention and the nature of our being.

Instead of "figuring out" what the afterlife already "is", it might be better to simply focus and intend on how you want your afterlife to be and what you want to experience and how you want to live when you get there.  Most of us don't give it that much thought and most of us certainly don't think we have much of a say about it, but if those realms are in fact much more responsive to conscious thought and intention, couldn't we be working on manifesting the afterlife experience we will have even while we are still here?