Science01
Biological death. Continuation is unestablished.
Asked of every system
Twenty-two questions
The same questions, asked in the same order. Read down a question to see where they rhyme and where they do not. No establishment is rewritten to fit the others.
- 01Where are we?
- 02What is reality made of?
- 03What is a human being?
- 04What is consciousness?
- 05Where did humanity come from?
- 06What happens at death?
- 07Does consciousness return to embodiment?
- 08Where is consciousness between lives?
- 09Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?
- 10Can those beings become human or appear human?
- 11Are there multiple realms or worlds?
- 12Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?
- 13Is the world itself alive?
- 14Has civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?
- 15Does history operate linearly or cyclically?
- 16Is there an opposing positive/negative force?
- 17What is humanity supposed to become?
- 18Is reincarnation a destination, punishment, school, growth process, or something else?
- 19What lies beyond the visible world?
- 20How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?
- 21Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?
- 22Why did humanity forget?
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What happens at death?
- Judaism02
Multiple concepts across periods and traditions — not a single afterlife doctrine.
Afterlife and judgment.
Resurrection, judgment, and eternal destiny.
- Islam05
Judgment and continued existence.
Death changes embodiment or state.
Continuity through dependent processes — not annihilation of a permanent self, nor a simple surviving soul.
Varied traditions concerning spirit and death.
An extensive postmortem journey through Duat and related celestial realms.
Underworld traditions.
Several possible destinations.
Continued spiritual existence.
Underworld and celestial journeys.
Judgment and continued existence.
A spirit world followed by resurrection.
The thetan survives bodily death.
Depends upon the religious or philosophical tradition in which the astrology operates.
Inanna’s Descent: the netherworld has gates. She is killed there and brought back. Dumuzi is seized in her place. Death is a realm, not simple nonexistence.
A shade goes below in Homer. Other streams offer mystery blessedness, punishment, or a philosophical judgment. They disagree.
- Jainism20
The jīva goes to another birth, or to liberation if karma is exhausted. Funeral rite is not what saves.
- Sikhism21
The soul proceeds according to its life and God’s order, toward another birth or toward union. A graphic hell-map is not the teaching’s center.
- Shinto22
Death pollutes and is handled ritually. Ancestors are honored. Yomi belongs to myth more than to a single shrine doctrine.
Ancestors are fed and housed in tablets and rites. Some popular traditions add courts of the underworld and, under Buddhist influence, rebirth. Not every family does all of this.
What is spiritual is meant to leave the rulers of the cosmos. Body and soul are not always the same thing in these texts, and the route is school-specific.
Several texts describe the soul giving back planetary qualities as it ascends. That itinerary is not in every treatise, and later Hermeticism varies.
The dead can become ancestors who still relate to the living. How that is described is lineage-specific. Diaspora traditions add their own rites.
Local mortuary law. A common heaven or hell is not the record.
The dead remain persons of the community. Mummies mattered to the Inca state. Other Andean peoples do not copy that court practice.
The soul continues and progresses. Heaven and hell are taught as conditions of nearness and distance, not only as locations on a map.
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A Lakota teaching: the spirit travels Wanáǧi Thacháŋku, the spirit road, identified with the Milky Way. Not filed as Dakota.
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What remains with the body is avoided. It is not a heaven drawn on this row. Further geography is Unclassified / Source Needed.
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The filed line names síd as an otherworld. It does not give one afterlife.
The filed line names Annwn as an otherworld. It does not give one afterlife.
Classical authors report a Gaulish teaching about death. The filed line says those words are not Gaulish, and that it is not a full doctrine.
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Working synthesis · not a verdict
Moon interval — death is not recorded here as simple extinction.