Afterlife and Individual Experience - What Crosses Over and What We Will See

 I have written in a previous post about how environments during your biomechanical life can create constructs that may house experiences in afterlife.  First and foremost, let me remind you, friend, that your personal paradigms - which are formulated from your upbringing, your culture, your physical environment and your religious beliefs - heavily influence the world you experience.  Better said, they influence your conscious self, which is essentially the sum total of all of the data fed to you from your tactile senses, as well as emotional and situational data that is presented to you from other sources.   Again, this data includes religious beliefs and cultural and situational paradigms, whether you are aware of them or not.  

The sum total of all of this data - including your personalized, localized tactile experience of the world around you - can be called a worldview. This worldview encapsulates and defines who you are.  And while worldviews can overlap, to be sure, every single individual worldview is different.   Meaning that no two human beings, no matter how close in proximity or emotional connection, can experience the world the same way.    This same concept applies to afterlife experience. 

This is why studies of NDEs (near-death-experiences) indicate that there are both individualized, nuanced variables in this phenomenon, as well as some typical features that are shared by all.   The shared features of these experiences - at least in my opinion - scientifically validate their credibility.   The individualized portions of these experiences (where they vary between different individuals) demonstate validity in my worldview emphasis above - that is to say, the differences found in these experiences directly correlate to invidualized worldview.   For example:  this Christian interpretation of these experiences necessarily validates the Christian experience, as does this Muslim interpretation. Once again, while these accounts differ (there's a significant deficit of data in the reporting of Islamic experiences, so it was difficult to find) they do have overlapping elements. 

Obviously, the Christian and Muslim worldviews differ to a great degree.    So do other western and eastern geo-political and religious paradigms, and I'm only listing the Christian and Islamic fundamentals here to keep this simplified for the sake of time and reading effort.    My point is that your world - the place where live/work/eat/sleep/reproduce/socialize/interact/formulate opinions - will directly and necessarily influence what you experience when you transition from this space to another.     

This should help us reflect on what we might expect, and maybe help lessen fears.  Is Mother Mary important in your current paradigm? Then it is likely that your experience will incorporate this.  How about Vishnu?  Then the same.    If you paradigm includes atheism, you may still have overlapping experiences such as white light, deceased loved ones, visions of your life as whole, etc.    In other words, afterlife isn't about religious experience, it is about individual consciousness and its interweaving with the universally conscious web.