Do you fly up into eternal heaven, or fall into an eternal hell? Do you reincarnate in this world as other people, or even animals, plants, or rocks? Do you keep living the life you led over and over again? Do you simply disappear into nothingness?

Different teachings offer different answers to these questions. Science details how the body decomposes when you die. In general, the discussion around this topic falls into two main categories:

1. People who have had near-death experiences and lived to describe what they saw and felt;

2. Religious beliefs, philosophies, and other theories offer concepts about the afterlife, reincarnation, and consciousness.

This Kabbalah Explained Simply with Markos is dedicated to investigating the question—” What happens when you die?”—from the perspective of the wisdom of Kabbalah, which offers a very different approach to the current knowledge on the topic.