http://www.spiritualtravel.org/OBE/afterdeath.htmlThe Second Bardo of the Afterlife
If the first bardo passes and attempts to access spiritual states were unsuccessful, the next bardo begins. The second bardo or the "bardo of becoming" is a stage in which the desires of the individual are said to carry the largely helpless soul through a great variety of intense emotional states. Good thoughts bring great bliss and pleasure, and hateful or negative thoughts bring great pain and desolation. The soul bounces from thought to thought as a torrent of thoughts and feelings come like a waterfall. Existing thought habits and desires are said to define the experience of the soul during the afterlife in this way.
I quoted this because again we can see that the absence or presence of thought is a strong determiner as to where we find ourselves after this life. That is why many of us here are working on our thoughts in our spiritual practice and during meditation; relinquishing thoughts in favor of witnessing them and ultimately witnessing consciousness.
' The spiritual traveler who has experienced the inner world during life can take the whirlwind nature of inner world following death with more calm and detachment.'
