18 March - Death, Near Death & Reincarnation

Okay it's the end of the dissociation process, but is there still something of our individuality that continues as seems to be suggested by near death experiences ? What would be at the base of this individual consciousness as separated from the mind at large when the body is no more ? Does the dissociation really stops or does it only seems to stop to the physical dissociated selves left behind...? In other words, is there something as a individual soul when the body is no more ? Something still individual, not yet merged into the "all there is" ?

In Buddhism, the idea of Rebirth/Re-incarnation is considered to be right view, however, it is an impersonal process with no entity/soul going from one birth to the next.

How does Analytical Idealism view death and what happens after the dissociating boundaries of an alter dissolve? Is there any kind of "continuity", meaning : would the content of the "dying" alter be the exact content of a new dissociation? Or is there a random mixing of the mind contents in mind at large, hence no continuity?

I would like to think that there are degrees of dissociation/association and that, during the death process, the alter does not dissolve completely in core subjectivity unless it is enlightened. Any comments?

Background of the question is the metaphor of life - individuated - being a whirlpool in a larger lake (M@L). In this context, as Bernardo explains, death would be the 'dissolution' of the whirlpool back into the lake. Such dissolution would entail the lake absorbing the experiences from the whirlpool. Keeping this metaphor, NDEs seem to be the interruption of this 'dissolution' mechanism. In some rare cases, this idea would align with cases of people who come back from coma with skills they didn't have before and didn't have any means of learning them (i.e. playing certain instruments, knowing about events they couldn't have learned before, performing highly in tasks they didn't perform so well before - i.e. calculations). From this, two questions unfold:

1) although hard to explain with concrete cases, is it possible to infer parsimoniously the limits of this 'yank back' in the dissolution process? In other words, when is the whirlpool not 'recoverable' anymore

2) what prevents this view from being anthropomorphised (humans acquiring human related skills)? In other words, what in this context prevents my dog coming back from cardiac arrest during a surgery to acquire human-like skills (or from any other species), since all the 'knowledge' becomes part of the same lake we are all a part of (or humans acquiring non-human skills)?

I have the idea that our culture is organised to live as 'unconscious'/not metaconscious as possible.

If you suffer 'the harvesting of life'; the offer to death is richer because it is more lived '(meta-)conscious'. So can we live more consciously without suffering but by accepting?