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Originally Posted by StephenK
Keep in mind... that when we think of ourselves we usually do so in regards to that which surround us... our family, friends, physical location, our perceived history, our job, our gender, what we own... and the folks that surround us are doing the same thing... our current definition-of-self is conditional... when we die... all those things that we think of while we are now defining ourselves will no longer be relevent.... right down to that sense of "feeling physical"... all that evaporates... so we will naturally be defining ourselves based on what will then come next... and we will do so with the same sureness that we are using to now define ourselves in this context... just as you defined yourself as a child, as a young teen, as a growing adult, so you will define yourself via the stimulus of that which comes next.... have faith.... :^)
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This is a slight digression, but Frederic Myers, that great pioneer of psychical research, communicated the following on this subject from the next life through the automatic writing of Geraldine Cummins, in her book, The Road to Immortality. It is a bit complicated to follow but it has helped me:
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"Memory out of the body is a different affair altogether. When we become discarnate beings we are far more detached from the early images for the reason that they are no longer bound to us by matter through the medium of the brain cells. The threads, you must realise, are broken by death…. We do not draw them to us as when we are alive, with labour and difficulty, we simply make the necessary effort which places us in the state that makes it possible for us to perceive the images we desire. Now, we are not in that state when we communicate through you. That is our difficulty. We are quite detached from these images, and unless the medium has the psychic power of absorbing the facts demanded from our memory – with our assistance, of course – we cannot provide you with the evidence you require."
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Point being that how we define ourselves on earth is soon to be completely irrelevant.