Hey evanti,
Life is continuous. THIS “life” is but one aspect of the continuous life. “Afterlife” is but another aspect of the continuous life. THIS is material manifestation of Soul/God/Energy. With these terms, “death” and “life” as words, lose their traditional meanings and take on a more descriptive meaning; adjective instead of noun (a description of whatever aspect of the whole life one refers to).

When speaking of oneness life and death can also be included; “life”, “death” and “afterlife” are aspects of the WHOLE life ((each of us (as Soul) are aspects of the whole (or collective) Soul/God/Energy.)). Thus we have oneness in/of life. Life is “bigger” than the humanly comprehensible words: life, death and afterlife. If we choose to try and define “life” as a singular event that ends, then we must come up with hundreds of new words to define all of the other seemingly singular events (i.e. pre-life, post afterlife, etc) and this becomes redundant, confusing and, not to mention, misleading.

One thing seems for certain, life is energy and energy flows; from one aspect/facet/manifestation to the next. This physical representation of self (“earth life”) is not life, merely a fraction of life! Think of the different parts of a stream; there is water, current, rocks, banks, falls, gravity. All of these are needed to produce the stream. But you do not call the rock, alone, the stream. You do not call the water, alone, the stream (if it didn’t flow due to falls and gravity, it would be a pond). Together these “ingredients” make up the stream. Well, life (in its divine definition) is the same. Life is the whole of all its infinite “parts”. And again, this physical/material plane is but a fraction of the continuous life!!

Understand? What do you think about this different view of the mountain?