As a Hellenic pagan I have no concrete thoughts on the afterlife. Sometimes I think reincarnation will happen (like some ancient sects), sometimes I think nothingness. The only thing I know for sure is that I will see Hermes, guide of the dead (and my patron). After that, I have no idea what will happen...and I don't really care, to be honest.
It's not something that worries or concerns me. :) I don't think my religion ever focused on the afterlife as much of a priority, and it's not a priority for me either. The here and now is where I am, so it's what I focus on, and if my actions have any bearing on the afterlife, so be it. I can only do what I think is best in this life. If I turn out to be wrong, well, such is (after)life.
In all honesty? I've found that it doesn't matter that much to me what the afterlife is like, because my focus is on living a good life here and now.
And I sort of find the idea of shades, with no needs nor wants sorta romantic. The idea of the three tiers is as well romantic and it feeds that sort of divine justice, that we all get our reward in the end depending on what we have done.
For me, the jury is still out on the idea of afterlife and what happens after death. Some days I feel reincarnation makes the most sense, other times I think we just cease to be (as individual spiritual entities). Oddly enough, I still have drawn no conclusions in spite of having a very profound near death experience in 1992, and even after the car accident I had in 1998 that by all accounts it was absolutely miraculous that I survived. (And odder still was the very night before the accident I had been praying to my patrons and had asked for sign-I was about to embark on a very difficult new choice in my life and I wanted confirmation that what I was about to undertake was worth it in the grand scheme of my life. The next day I came so close to death I nearly shook the scythe-bearing bastard’s hand
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I believe the pyschopomps guide you to wherever you're supposed to go .... though for whatever reason some souls seem to wander or become trapped on earth (we call them ghosts). I hold out that some souls may be reincarnated, though I don't think this happens for most people.
Those who honored mystery deities obviously felt they would get a better deal than the gloomy abode of Hades. While this is not the main reason I got into Isis worship, I do hope it turns out to be one of the benefits.
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It's not something that worries or concerns me. :) I don't think my religion ever focused on the afterlife as much of a priority, and it's not a priority for me either. The here and now is where I am, so it's what I focus on, and if my actions have any bearing on the afterlife, so be it. I can only do what I think is best in this life. If I turn out to be wrong, well, such is (after)life.
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And I sort of find the idea of shades, with no needs nor wants sorta romantic. The idea of the three tiers is as well romantic and it feeds that sort of divine justice, that we all get our reward in the end depending on what we have done.
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Yeah it is a romantic view of things-
I was just curious to see what others thought-
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Those who honored mystery deities obviously felt they would get a better deal than the gloomy abode of Hades. While this is not the main reason I got into Isis worship, I do hope it turns out to be one of the benefits.
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