what happens when we DIE?

[Bring4th_Austin]

How can people have "memories" of past lives when most of our current details is lost when we die.

When I read the quote you're referring to, I don't see a clear-cut meaning behind it. As picky as Ra was about semantics.

"In your terms there is a great loss of mind complex due to the fact that much of the activity of the mental nature of which you are aware during the experience of this space/time continuum is as much of a surface illusion as is the chemical body complex."

Ra specifically states "activity," and doesn't mention anything about memories. Having a "great loss of mind complex" may simply mean losing certain faculties of the mind that we are accustomed to as 3D creatures, but not losing the memories we have already gained through those faculties. This interpretation also makes sense to me when followed up by the next segment:

"In other terms nothing whatever of importance is lost; the character or, shall we say, pure distortion of emotions and biases or distortions and wisdoms, if you will, becoming obvious for the first time, shall we say; these pure emotions and wisdoms and bias/distortions being, for the most part, either ignored or underestimated during physical life experience."

I feel like Ra is talking much more about personality here, not memories. We have gained a certain illusory identity on top of our true identity within our lifetimes that does not maintain after death, yet the memories of that identity remain.


However, I have also contemplated the idea of specific memories being lost and only emotional biases remain, and how that would come through as a "past life memory." The "emotional imprint" of the experience may remain with no specific details in place, and our mind sort of "fills in the blanks" using our current mind's biases. The memory recovered is emotionally identical, yet the specific illusion of the even has been colored by our mind.

This is all just speculation.


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As for what I believe happens after death, I suppose there is no way to know for sure, and I am okay with that. Before discovering the Ra material and moving down a spiritual path, I went through a strict atheist phase where I was faced with the idea of total identity destruction upon my physical death. I became comfortable with this, so I have no real hopes for an afterlife. However, I have experienced intense situations of my consciousness being separate from my body, which drives my curiosity on the afterlife. I quite like Ra's description of the incarnative cycles and procedures.