The afterlife

Mornings,

I know, it's a stupid topic to even begin to try to tackle... there is no real proof there even is an afterlife and... ok, now I've smothered the atheist voice in my head, lets get down to business. (to defeat the huns...)

Well there are three views that I'm looking at, remeber I'm a kemetic pagan so I'm not going to look at heaven. *shudder*

1. The Field of Reeds, as described in the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts and the Book of Coming Forth by Day, (Zoe stop laughing) also called the Book of the Dead. Traditional Kemetic beliefs, you die, you go through the Duat, you get judged by Djehuty and you either go to the Field of Reeds or you get eaten by Ammet.

2. Reincarnation, borrowed from the Eastern religions by a lot of Wiccans, and interwoven with their beliefs on the Summerlands.

3. My old belief that the afterlife was like memories, so everything you did in this life you could play over again and try out different ways, but you could only expierence what you've experienced in life. And when you run out of memories, then you might get reincarnated if you haven't learnt enough or you just rest.

I now think its some combination of the three, I think there is some kind of judgment and reincarnation, and maybe Ammet is just a particually harsh lesson that needs to be learnt. I'd like to think the univese was overall fair. I'm not sure that it is, but heck it's a belief not science. I think I'd prefer reincarnation to just one time on earth, or even one time being alive, it doesn't necessarily have to be on earth, any life supporting planet, because there has got to be more than one... but I guess the subject of aliens is for another post.

I would try to explain my views futher, but I think I'd just confuse myself and anyone reading it.

For now,

-Ankh