(06-03-2009, 02:32 AM)ayadew Wrote: That we see as destructive, is highly creative - changing, reforming, creative. Conscioussness is never destroyed, so nothing is ever lost
i suggest that some actions (such as suicide) can place extreme obstacles to our evolutionary development in the afterlife.
for example, if a person shoots themself in the head with a gun based upon the fantasy that their pain will be over when they die, they may only end up re-experiencing that trauma a hundred times over again while in the afterlife in a tormenting context, until they actually work through it again. the agony of physical death may often last long into the afterlife if a person has not become psychologically detached from the cares of the material world. suicide may be a physical detachment from material cares, but it's not necessarily a psychological detachment from material cares.
likewise, people who have been murdered by others often carry the trauma of that murder with them long into the afterlife in a tormenting context, until they might strive to purge themselves of the negative energy of that trauma. the afterlife is not necessarily all bliss and roses, even as our material realm is not all bliss and roses.