Death is a sensitive topic. Although it happens to all of us, what happens after it can perhaps never be confirmed. So here are some of the commonly known and bizarre theories on what may happen when we die.

You come back as an animal. Animal reincarnation is a concept where once you die, your soul leaves your body and comes back in a new born animal. Once you become an animal you won’t know of the past life as a human. It is one of the main beliefs in India and other Eastern regions. The Buddhist religion says that the soul takes the body of an animal because of past misdeeds and animals cannot engage in conscious acts of self improvement. Their souls must continue to be reborn as animals until their bad karma is exhausted. It is only after that, that they are born as human beings. So being reborn as an animal is considered to be a serious setback in the Buddhist religion.

Born Again. Have you ever experienced Déjà vu, the overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn’t be familiar at all? One theory suggests that it happens because you have been there before. Being born again is the theory that your entire life is Déjà vu. Once you die, you start over again in a new human body, never to remember your previous life ever. Everything is just repeating over and over again. But this time you may have new opportunities and maybe you won’t make the same mistakes you made the last time. Some say that this is the world’s way of recycling us and bringing us back as better and more intelligent humans.

Heaven and hell. Out of all the theories of the after death, going to heaven or hell is one of the widely and easily believed theory out there. The notion is that the spirit, which is inside all of us, goes to heaven or hell after death depending on the decisions made in our physical life. It is said in The Holy Bible that those who have faith in Christ will go into an eternal life in heaven but those who reject Christ as their savior will be sent to eternal punishment in hell. Hell is described in the bible as a bottomless pit with a lake of fire burning with sulfur and whoever goes there will be tormented day and night forever. Heaven on the other hand will be a magical place filled with love and care where you will spend your days with your loved ones who have also passed. Many believe that life on earth is a test, a preparation for what is to come.

Death is an illusion. This one is quite difficult to wrap your brain around. It is the thought that death is just an illusion which is a mere figment of our consciousness as stated by Professor Robert Lancer, a scientist from North Carolina. He says that the answer lies in quantum physics and bio-centrism. Professor Robert says that bio-centrism explains the universe only exists because of an individual’s consciousness of it. Essentially life and biology are centered to reality which in turn creates the universe and that the universe itself does not create life. He believes that space and time are just tools of the mind and it isn’t what we think it is. It seems that Albert Einstein somewhat believed in this theory. He once said something related to this when a dear friend of his passed. People like us know that the distinction between the past, present and future is only an illusion. It is Einstein’s theory of relativity that showed us space and time are relative to the observer. But if the world is observer created, then it would be destroyed when each of us die. Maybe what happens after death is so mind blowing that we cannot comprehend it. We are only able to think what our brains can grasp. So is death just an illusion? Sounds crazy to give a definitive answer because what happens after death can perhaps never be proved.

Nothing. This theory is less magical and spiritual. Once you die, that’s it. You don’t go to heaven or hell, you won’t be reincarnated in to an animal or be reborn as a human. There will be complete silence. Everyone you loved, everything you touched is now gone. Once your heart stops beating and the electrical impulses in your brain stops, that’s it. Its not even blackness as you need to have a conscious working brain in order to process blackness. Its just an empty void of nothingness. You wouldn’t even realize that you are dead because like blackness, you need a consciousness for realization. It would be like you fell asleep and never woke up.

So those are some theories of what would happen to us after we die. There may never be a definite answer to the mysteries surrounding death, but the theories surrounding it are endless. I hope you have enjoyed and if so share this article and also check out my other posts too. Follow me to learn more about the many interesting mysteries out there!