By BoJenn
Over the years, I’ve been asked many questions about the afterlife. Since I had a profound near-death experience (NDE) in 2019, I deeply appreciate the curiosity and openness behind those questions.
However, these aren’t easy questions to answer. Why? Because each of us is unique. We bring different belief systems, spiritual conditioning, emotional experiences, and expectations into life—and into death. What one person seeks may be rooted in religion, while another looks for personal truth, free of any formal system.
That difference matters. In my view—based entirely on my NDE—we are consciousness beyond this physical dimension. Nothing more, nothing less. And consciousness, like all energy, expresses itself in endlessly varied ways.
So when people ask, “Why are near-death experiences so different?” or “Aren’t we supposed to all meet the same God or go to the same place?”—my honest answer is: No. Our experience after death reflects our level of consciousness, our beliefs, our openness, and the stories we still carry.
For example, I’ve long rejected organized religion. I find most systems of belief to be limiting, dogmatic, and fear-based. So during my NDE, I didn’t see angels or tunnels or judgment. There was no heaven or hell—no patriarch on a throne. Instead, I experienced consciousness itself—as pods or fields of light and intelligence, each being an individual soul creating its own path, its own realities.
In that space, we are the creators. And when we give our power away to belief systems, groups, or so-called divine authorities, we may lose connection with our own inner truth. That’s not punishment—it’s simply cause and effect. Belief is creation.
If you believe in a loving, creative Primal Source—what some call God—then it only makes sense that such a Primal Source would want you to evolve independently, to grow in your own way, not to follow someone else’s blueprint.
So no, I don’t believe people who think differently are “going to hell.” That kind of thinking, to me, shows spiritual immaturity. And if anyone sees me as wrong, lost, or even “of the devil,” that’s their belief—not my truth. I may simply feel compassion for someone who hasn’t yet stepped into their own freedom. Perhaps, sorrow for the lack of growth in their own consciousness, might be my feelings.
We are not here to fit into other people’s systems. We are here to remember who we are—and become it.
That’s all for now.
We’ll talk more soon.
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