Personal Experiences Around What Happens After You Die?

What happens after you die? My Spiritual Guide and Teacher, John U.K. shared this  information with me about what happens after we die. “After death the fragment (who is a fragment of the Tao; the soul; the person) is debriefed. The length of time of the debriefing depends on what the fragment expects in the afterlife and what type of life they have lived. For those who expect heaven or hell, they will experience such. Stalin, Hitler, and other tyrants are still in that process of debriefing because they have to accept each and every persons death they were responsible for causing – in fact, they will continue this process well until all other fragments have gone on to progress to the mid-causal of the Tao and they will live out their lives alone on the earth.”

Because I have developed some unique skills, I now have had some experiences with the afterlife that have given me more insight than what John U.K. shared with me. My unique skills include being able to project my spiritual self to the astral plane (heaven) and as a result I CAN connect and interact with souls who have died and are now spiritual beings. In addition, I have developed healing skills with medical Qigong and with this, I developed the ability to sense subtle invisible energies, like Qi (chi). I am able to see, sense, visualize, and communicate with spiritual energies including energetic spiritual beings, usually in a mediation or a medical Qigong treatment. 

As a result, my own personal experiences with what happens after someone dies broadens the picture a bit as to what happens after we die. Shortly after I was certified in Medical Qigong, the Chinese Master who taught me her skills died. This was one of my first experiences I had in being able to see and interact with someone’s soul who had just passed.   

Joy and No More Pain and Suffering

I was meditating at home, early in the morning, and felt the presence of Suzanne, my Qigong instructor in the room. Suzanne had been very sick from lung cancer and near death for a couple of days. I opened my eyes and there she was, standing right in front of me. I knew she was dead, but in front of me I saw a very vibrant and exuberant soul. She was filled with joy. She even got on my couch and started to jump up and down because she could.She was no longer hampered with shortness of breath, pain, and the burden of cancer. She observed me drinking tea and asked for a cup, then laughed and laughed like it was a funny joke because we both knew she couldn’t drink what I was having. This was my first experience in having a soul visit me immediately after they died.. 

From this experience I learned that death is just a different state of being and it can be an experience filled with joy, laughter, and complete satisfaction. 

I also had another experience where someone who recently died then came to visit me.

Moving In and Out Between the Domains

After I became certified in Medical Qigong I rented a clinic to give weekend medical Qigong treatments. Before each treatment I would go into my office, meditate, and mentally prepare for the treatment. But on this day, during my meditation preparation I saw my former father-in-law standing in front of me. I had heard he just died, but now he was standing in my office. He greeted me and asked if he could observe me at work. He didn’t know anything about Qigong and wanted to know more about it. I told him “OK, but he had to behave”.

I then walked into the treatment room and he was already standing in that room. My client was laying on the treatment table with her eyes closed and totally relaxed and I felt as if she would not be disturbed or even aware of his presence. I then began the Qigong medical treatment. But during her treatment I continually heard my former father-in-law making comments, such as  “oh my! did you see that?” and then “by golly what just happened there?” I even smiled a bit to myself because it seemed he was enjoying this experience. When the treatment ended, he disappeared and was now gone.

But later at my home, he again showed up for a while and we chatted a bit, and then he left. He did this several times. I assumed he stopped by so much because I could see and converse with him and others could not. But on the day of his funeral I told him he needed leave and be with the family. He left and never returned like before. But later he sought me out when I was there on the astral plane. He said he was no longer able to easily come to the physical plane and visit with me. He could only do this right after he died. He no longer had that “physical essence” that helped him easily go back and forth between the physical and astral planes. This essence only lasted a few days and then it was gone. He now had to develop other ways if he wanted to communicate or connect with those on the physical plane.

Those two experiences of interacting with a soul who just died, and then having them come to visit directly me is different from experiences where I go to visit the soul who has just died and is on the astral plane.

The Soul Goes to a Place of Transition and Debriefing

I was on vacation when a family member, who was aged and suffering from dementia, died. I decided to project myself to where she is on the astral plane and just check in with her. So I began a meditation and and then when I felt ready, I projected myself to the astral plane with a focus on connecting and visiting her. I immediately arrived in what looked like a hospital room, and saw she was laying in a hospital bed with the head raised. She looked exactly like I last saw her - old and frail, but this time she seemed mentally sharp, smiling, laughing and appeared very happy. Her husband was there and other friends and family hovered around the bed. She suddenly stopped talking and looked at me and asked, “Beth, what are you doing here? Are you dead?” I told her no, that I just wanted to check on her and make sure she was OK.”  She obviously seemed fine - better than ever. I then noticed the others were starting to stare at me as if I was an alien so I decided to leave, and did. I was now out of my meditation and felt comforted she was OK and doing well. 

The Transfer is Instantaneous

Another friend of the family, in her 90’s, was in a care facility and out of state. She was now in hospice and getting ready to die. I wanted to make sure she was OK and I also didn’t want her to feel alone or abandoned. I decided to visit her by projecting myself to her bedside and see if I could help ease this transition. 

I found her spiritual self standing outside of her physical body and looking down at herself in the hospital bed. She greeted me and then resumed looking down at her body, just observing it and waiting for it to die so her spiritual self could be released. I told her I was here to see if I could help.She asked if I knew a way to speed up this process of what seemed to be a slow lingering death.

I told her I was aware there was something in her chest that would look like a little sliver of white "rice" but that it acts kind of like a plug. I continued, “It will slowly fall out on its own, or you, the owner of your body, can pull it out.” She said, "is that all?"  I said yes, as far as I know.  

She laughed and then just yanked it out. IMMEDIATELY the light in the room changed and we were now both standing in a different dimension. We had not "physically moved" but were now somewhere else and it happened in less than a second.

We were now in what looked like a hospital room and it was filled with her friends and family all talking, laughing, and with welcoming messages. I could see what looked like balloons and welcome signs - like the beginnings of a party.

She and I then flickered back and forth between her hospice room and this new "afterlife realm" located in a different dimension. This seemed to be initiated by her thoughts. She would have a thought like “I wonder what is happening to my body” and IMMEDIATELY we were flipped back to the bedside of hospice looking down at her physical body. The nurses were there doing what they needed to do with her physical body and we were both once again just standing over her former dead body that was now dead. She then would have a change in her thoughts and IMMEDIATELY we both would be back standing in that other realm. 

I told her she could probably go back and forth between these realms very easily for a few days, but as her earthly essence in the physical world diminishes, this ability to move back and forth with just a thought would probably end. From my experience, it is usually a few days. She was rather tickled and excited about this new information.I then told her good-bye and left. I ended my meditation and was now back in my home.

Death of a Hybrid Soul

Years ago I gave one Qigong treatment to a young man with depression, but years later, this young man committed suicide.  A few days after his death, I projected my energetic self to the astral plane to see if I could reconnect back with him and make sure he was OK. I found him in what appeared to be a medical facility to me. He was in a private room and in a hospital bed. He was facing away from the door, laying on his side, covered by a sheet and blanket. The lights were turned off. The door was open and I slowly walked into the room. I called out his name and announced who I was while I walked toward him. He didn't acknowledge me at all. I then saw a mutual friend of ours in the room - Jim. Jim had died of cancer over a year ago, saw me, and walked up to me and gave me a hug. He guided me out of the room and we chatted in the hall. Our shared friend was not ready to have visitors, so I left, but was delighted that Jim was there to help in this young man's transition after death. 

I returned to my meditative state on the physical plane, but then received a mental message "I am alright, now". I knew the message was from this young man. His message was embedded in the melody of a song I knew by Paolo Nutini - "White Lies". It was as if the melody and the embedded words were being carried directly into my mind. The lyrics, however, had been slightly modified to express what this young man wanted to tell me and share with his parents.  Here is the message: 

• There's a heart on the line And it rests with your eyes 
• Please don't fade and please don't cry, coz I'm all right, now. 
• Take a chance and watch it fall, grab too much and lose it all 
• Now I've lost my disguise, I'm all right, now. 

This was the young man that I recently learned is a “hybrid soul”. For his transition, it would be specifically catered for his needs - to recover in quiet place, in the dark, and communication would be done using sound, music, and telepathy.

Conclusion

Based on my personal experiences with persons who have recently died, the soul can go to a place of transition and be greeted by family and friends to assist in that transition. Also, souls who have recently died are more easily able to continue to be present on the physical plane for a few days after they die due to their physical essence, but when that is gone, the visits and/or communication and/or sensation from that person won’t be as easy.

Your Energetic Soul

Your soul is energy. Your soul is not physical. It is part of the metaphysical realm that is mostly invisible to our eyes and other senses. Because our soul is not physical in nature, it does not need to conform or obey the physical laws of nature, like gravity or laws of motion. For example, it can defy gravity - our soul can float and fly. Our soul also moves by the speed of thought, which is much faster than the speed of light or speed of sound. You essentially just have a focused thought on where you want to go and then you are there. The movement and change of location is that fast. 

Your energetic self, your soul, can conform to physical spaces, such as the human body, but it doesn’t need to. It can be confined or not. It is flexible in how it behaves. It can also fragment into smaller pieces of itself. This allows the option to be in multiple places at once, which means that part of the soul can stay inside the physical body, for example, and other portions can leave the body and be somewhere else.  

In addition, all the parts of the energetic soul can communicate with each other and do not need to be physically connected in order to commune. It is always connected with itself no matter where the other parts of it are located. The energetic soul is really rather wondrous. 

Because your soul is an invisible energy field with tremendous flexibility and communication skill, it allows you opportunities beyond physical restrictions. For example, while you are sleeping, you may have sent a portion of your soul to visit your Higher Self on the astral plane. You would do this because your Higher Self is the conglomerate sum of all your prior incarnations and knows your life objectives and what experiences you have already learned in prior lives. This is your primary and best source to help you navigate your life journey. 

Or perhaps, during a meditation, you feel an expansion and then have a portion of your soul wander off and be directed to check on your kid at school and make sure he is OK.  Or you may develop skills to project outside of your physical body and send your energetic self to the bedside of someone to give them a remote Qigong medical treatment. These are some of the things you can do by learning how to use your energetic body to help you in your physical reality.

But there are other opportunities for new and different experiences within the energetic field of the Tao. For example, an energetic soul could send part of its soul to explore parallel timelines. Or you could have your soul go and explore all the dimensions of the Tao itself. The soul could even project itself back to the past and visit prior incarnations, for example, or even project itself into the future. It is even possible for an energetic soul to decide to completely leave its physical body and allow a totally different soul to take up occupancy in that physical body. These are all possible. AND, they are all being done right now.

There are many possibilities and ways to learn, grow, and explore in our lives. But tapping in and using our energetic soul to open up new doors of discovery is another possibility and a new reality. There are many more and different adventures ahead of us.

A Hybrid Soul Experience

A few years ago I did a Qigong treatment on a young man suffering from depression. A few years after my treatment, he died by suicide. But during a meditation today, his spiritual self stopped by to visit with me. In our discussion I learned he is a “Hybrid” - a type of dual soul who blends from two different sources. 

After our brief interchange, I pulled out my treatment notes from the Qigong treatment I gave him in 2019. I wanted to see if there were hints or signs in his treatment to show me his dual nature. Here is a summary of his Qigong treatment (which he is permitting me to share): 

Pre-Qigong Treatment Assessment

I did a brief projection of my energetic self to his bedside inorder to prepare for his upcoming qigong treatment. I came into his bedroom and it was dark and gray – thick with stagnant energy. I first thought I needed to clear this gray energy out of his room, but then thought, “no, this is a type of protection he has created and I need to leave it as is”.  It was like a cocoon of dark energy. In a way, it reminded me of being deep in the ocean. I then thought of how I feel at times when I am in the swimming pool – that feeling of total relaxation and oneness. I brought that feeling in me, and into the room. I then thought of whale sounds, and that sound now filled this energetic space. It felt relaxing, and I could see it was helping him relax and trust my presence.

I then introduced myself to him. No comment back. No response. I then told him I was going to assess his personal energy and frequencies. I would need to clear some of the stagnant energy away from his body so I could get in to access him. The room was dark, black like energy, but the energy surrounding his body was white – like clouds, so I brushed those clouds away. 

I then went into his energetic body to assess his organs. Physically, his organs looked fine. I then pondered the situation based on his emotions and got a different feel. I kept thinking how he seemed to NEED to be enveloped in darkness, like it was dark water.  

I decided to schedule his Qigong treatment on this upcoming Friday night/early Saturday morning to be done while he slept. I also requested help from spiritual beings who could assist me with the type of care he needed. 

Qigong Treatment

A female Spiritual Being showed up to help with this Qigong treatment. It was someone I didn’t know and had never worked with before. She said her name was Elke. We then began the treatment and she introduced some very long thin subtle energy threads into his energetic body. I saw these very microscopic threads elongate and stretch within his entire body. I then saw his skin change. It actually reminded me of dolphin skin. It was as if these energy threads were able to create a new type of skin for him – almost like a wetsuit. It was a layer of protection, but with this “new skin” he would be able to be more mobile and be protected from our world. It would allow him to leave his bedroom, which essentially was like a cave in that deep dark water. With this new skin (of protection) he would be able to go out onto dry land (the outside world) and interact. 

In a way, he seemed to be like a dolphin but had to morph into being a human in order to interact in the human world. He had not yet been able to adjust to the environment “out of the water” so Elke, the Spiritual Being assisting with his treatment, brought strands of energy that would allow him to create a skin of protection and move in and out of these environments at his own pace and when he wanted.

Elke then showed me how the skin would change – color, texture, thickness, etc, based on his desire. He would be in charge of bringing this layer of protection forward and making it do what he needed it to do. He was now “chameleon-like” but the change was based on his emotional and mental need, not the environment. I then wrapped him in Qi and ended the session. 


Conclusion

My Qigong treatment notes clearly indicate the signs of this young man's dual nature but at that time, I didn't know that a hybrid soul was even a possibility. But because I am on a quest to learn more about the metaphysical Tao, I'm consciously being more open, aware, and accepting of different concepts. This was the reason why he stopped by for our visit during this meditation.

This concept about having a hybrid soul now seems rather remarkable and wondrous. Perhaps there are others. Maybe even some people we view as misfits or those who don't fit in are really just explorers and adventurers in this new path of our expanding reality.

Let's Talk About Karma

The Tao set up different methods to assure it would achieve its goals of experience, growth, and progression. The Tao uses the dual energies of yin and yang as a method to create movement and change. It also created the principle of harmony and balance as a means to create the stillness for growth and development of insight and we call this karma. In addition, there is a set up called karmic debt as a method to assure balance and accountability are part of that harmonic process. Karmic debt accumulation and paying of those debts assures not only balance, but a way for the ongoing creation of positive energies. All this plays its part to help the Tao continue to grow, change, and progress. 

Karma includes both positive and negative experiences and the subtle energies created from both of these types of activities. Karmic debt is when you harm another soul either through your actions or being complicit and not doing anything to prevent this harm. Paying your karmic debt or burning karma is the process of replacing the negative energies you were made and now creating positive energies that restore and rebalance your energetic footprint in the cosmos. Paying a karmic debt is usually done in a different incarnation, but not always. Karmic debts accrue interest to encourage souls to repay them sooner rather than later. This also assures the Tao will always have more positive energies created over all the negative things done within the Tao. 

After a person dies, their soul returns to the astral plane (aka heaven) and then will go through a type of debriefing process. The person (or soul) reviews the life they just completed and assesses if and how they completed their life purpose as well as the overall positive or negative impact they made in that life. In this process, their soul will acknowledge and accept responsibility for any imbalance of energy and determine what negative consequences they need to account for and correct. From this, a karmic debt (or karmic ribbon) is created and becomes attached energetically to their soul. 

The debriefing process and accepting responsibilities of karmic debts may or may not be lengthy. Adolf Hitler, the German Nazi leader who created World War II, for example, is still currently immersed in his debriefing process. He needs to review and accept responsibility for each and every person he harmed. World War II, which he created, killed at least 75 million people. Add in the suffering, imprisonments, torture, abuses, and fear mongering over the entire planet means his karmic debt is quite massive.

What does karmic debt feel like? Karmic debt does not create physical pain per se, but it does create spiritual discomfort. It is like a feeling of confinement or a kind of heaviness that has been placed on the soul. It may be tolerable if it is just a few karmic threads, but when the debt becomes large, it may feel like a “wet blanket” you can never shake off. Eventually, most souls will tire of those sensations and restrictions and become motivated to reincarnate and pay off their karmic debts. 

Mother Teresa, for example, in her prior incarnations, had acquired a lot of karmic debt and became tired of carrying this heavy load. Her soul then decided to plan a life completely devoted to burning off all her karmic debt and so planned a life to become a nun, with a focus on health care, and work with the poorest of the poor. She was born and eventually became Mother Teresa. This incarnation of total service paid off all those karmic debts. 

Most of us, however, pay off our karmic debts little by little.We plan our repayments to be a part of our life rather than our entire life. For example, in my life, I programmed to use service in the healthcare industry (nursing) as a way to pay off some of my karmic debts. Service in health care is often a method where good deeds can be achieved. When I was around 13 years old, I knew I would have a career in the health care service industry even though there was no encouragement in this area. My parents were not interested in education nor in health care. But I knew I needed to do this. So I did. Later I learned the rationale for my choice - it was a way to pay of some of my acquired karmic debts from former incarnations. 

In addition, I also felt a passion to empower women. I was very driven in this activity, almost to the point of obsession. Then one day, I woke up and the passion was gone. It was as if the air in my balloon had all been let out. Later I was made aware this passion was associated with a karmic debt I acquired in the 1600’s. In that incarnation, I was a military/political male living in Spain and had been complicit in the witch hunts and trials of the time.Because I did nothing to prevent three women from being killed for witchcraft, I acquired a karmic debt to those women. It took me 3 lifetimes to pay off this debt and when the debt was repaid, my frantic uncontrollable passion about women empowerment suddenly left. This is how a person knows the debt has been paid - that uncontrollable sensation and feeling suddenly leaves.

The Tao has set up several systems and methods to assure there is growth, change, experience, progression, and accountability. Karmic is the focus on balance. Karmic debt is a process to make sure energies get rebalanced. Burning karma is the way to assure more positive energy is created and more good works get done than what was negatively committed. All of this helps the Tao - and us - achieve our purpose and goals. 

You Have a Physical Body, a Soul, and a Higher Self

One of the most basic building blocks in our life is understanding who we are. All of us are aware we have a physical body, but not everyone is aware (or believes) this is just a small part of who we are. We also have non-physical elements to our being; we also have a Soul and a Higher Self.

What is the Soul?

• The Soul is ALL of your subtle energies.  It includes:
• Your life force energy (from the tao’s fragmentation).
• Your spiritual body (your chakras, your dantiens, and your qi (chi).
• Your energy body (your channels, meridians, and your acupoints)
• Your mental abilities, aspirations, feelings, and desires.  

Your Soul is also an extension of your Higher Self. Your Higher Self is sometimes called your Higher Soul or your Holy Spirit. 

What is the Higher Self?

​​Unless this is your very first experience and incarnation on the physical plane (earth) everyone has a Higher Self.  If this is your first experience in a physical body will not have a Higher Self as of yet.  But when your physical body dies, the energy body of the Soul that remains is called the Higher Self.  With each incarnation after this first incarnation, your Higher Self will remain on the astral plane while your energy body has a new physical life experience on the earth. Your energy body in this new incarnation will be in a new and different body. Then, when this incarnation ends and the body dies, the energy that remains is then added to your Higher Self.  

As you experience more incarnations, more energy bodies will be accumulated within your  Higher Self. This accounts for the Higher Self’s increase of knowledge and wisdom as you gain more experience and opportunities to learn, grow, and progress.

Your Higher Self is the sum total of all your former incarnations - lives and experiences from each and every previous lifetimes. I personally think of it as being similar to the cloud I use to store all my computer documents. I have many files stored and saved on the cloud. When I need to find and access the information stored in one of my files, I go to the cloud, find the file, retrieve and use that information when I need it.  I view my Higher Self acting similar to this concept or storage and retrieval of my personal information.  

At the later stages of your many incarnations, when you incarnate, you no longer require as much spiritual energy; more energy can be retained by your Higher Self.  This process can help and influence your earthly life because the Higher Self will be stronger because most of your energy force is with your Higher Self.  That is why in the older soul age stages we see some people who seem to intuitively know about things. This is because all that knowledge is within their Higher Self and is automatically being transmitted by that strong Higher Self.

Your Higher Self is Your Personal Resource to Understand Your Life Purpose

Because your Higher Self includes the information of all your prior incarnations, your Higher Self is a tremendous source to provide guidance and information to you in this life. This resource is focused on just you and wants you to succeed and complete what you planned to do in this life. Your Higher Self will be nudging you towards the experiences you planned.  

Your Soul and your Higher Self are very closely related. They work very much as a single unit, but also separate. Your Soul is an extension of the Higher Self as well as the physical self. This allows a special communication to occur. This also allows the soul to be instructed not only by the Higher Self, but by the physical self, too. Therefore, the Higher Self automatically produces the feelings, sensations, information, insight that the soul desires.

You Are More Than Just a Physical Body

I believe the value in recognizing you are more than just a physical body is an awareness you have more resources to help you succeed in your life journey. When you are sick, you can expand your ability to heal by allowing your spiritual and energetic body to partner and help your physical body heal. You can use acupuncture, Qigong, massage, tapping, sound, chants, rituals, meditation, and the like. Using tools to engage and help the energetic side of your physical self can exponentially expand your ability to heal.

In addition, when you are confused, frustrated, or depressed, or can't make a decision, there are methods and tools available to help strengthen your spiritual energetic self to get you rebalanced and renewed.