As they gather to study, Evan explains the eight post-mortem possibilities and soul options to Diesel, Rev, and Abby, setting the stage for a deep debate about what happens when the physical body dies. Evan spreads a sheet of notebook paper on the library table, covered in circles, arrows, and strange labels.
“I’m researching post‑mortem possibilities,” he says. “How many afterlife options are you actually aware of?”
Diesel leans back in his chair, hands laced behind his head. “Easy. When my body dies, I dissolve. Poof. End of story.”
“So option one,” Evan says, writing it down, “is being a Dissolver.”
Rev taps a pen against his lip, thinking. “I always picture it like a wheel,” he says. “Life goes around and around. Our core consciousness keeps getting new bodies. We just… come back.”
“That’s option two,” Evan says. “Being a Revolver.”
Abby tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. “I believe my soul is absolved,” she says. “I go straight to a heavenly paradise.”
“Option three,” Evan says, “is being an Absolver. Those souls hang out in a Celestial Sanctuary while they wait for another body. Some people call it Devachan.”
He circles the word on his page.
“While they’re alive,” he explains, “Absolvers pre‑create a personal heaven in their imagination—a fantasy dream world where they take a vacation after death. They heal there. Rest. Prepare to return to soul school. Their negative shadow‑elf is temporarily packed away and separated until they reincarnate.
“The Celestial Sanctuary feels like heaven, but it’s temporary. A middle‑world. It lets souls fulfill ungratified, harmless, and distracting desires. But eventually, they still have to go back.”
Rev frowns. “I’m not sure what happens in between bodies,” he admits. “But I’d guess there’s a ghostlike spirit world. Some place where consciousness gets stuck trying to work out attachments, addictions and revenge.”
“Option four,” Evan says, “is being a Resolver. Those are disembodied spirits who refuse to move on until they deal with what’s still tying them to Earth.”
Rev whistles under his breath. “Four options already,” he says. “And I used to think it was just ‘heaven or nothing.’”
“I don’t think we’re meant to stay on the wheel forever,” Evan says. “We’re supposed to graduate from the circle of reincarnation. Our souls can keep evolving higher as we master more wisdom, virtues, and mystic powers.”
“More like a spiral than a circle,” Rev says. “Always rising, not just going in loops. I like that better than endless circles.”
“Option five,” Evan says, writing it down, “is being an Evolver.”
Abby hesitates. “I also believe some souls go to a dark, hellish place,” she says quietly. “Because they don’t love the Creator. Some devils and demons are… not nice.”
“Souls like that aren’t evolving,” Evan says. “They’re devolving—sliding into corruption and chaos. Option six is being a Devolver. They’re on a path similar to demons.”
Rev’s face darkens. “It seems like a being could rack up so much negative karma that they become insolvent,” he says. “So dark and corrupt inside that they can’t hold themselves together anymore. They’d start burning up from the inside, slowly, until there’s nothing left.”
Diesel winces. “Peaceful dissolving sounds a lot better than melting slowly in your own wickedness.”
“Option seven,” Evan says, “is becoming Insolvent—cast into a kind of inner lake of fire until the soul is gone.”
Abby throws both hands up. “You’re making this way too complicated,” she says. “Why not just expect a good place or a bad place? Heaven or hell. Done.”
“I’m grateful Life isn’t that flat,” Evan says. “It’s not just black and white. There are a thousand shades between, and whole colors we don’t have words for.
“The simple heaven‑or‑hell story is useful for scaring little kids into behaving. But it falls apart, just like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, once you start really thinking. Teenagers start asking: What about the people who aren’t pure saints or pure monsters? The ones who don’t fit either box?”
He leans forward.
“What about the ones who can’t decide whether to side with darkness or divinity?” he asks. “People who steal from the rich and give to the poor, convinced they’re virtuous—but they’re still harming. They can’t get into paradise, but they don’t deserve eternal torture either. Most people who actually think about it end up realizing that an evolving soul probably needs many chances and many worlds to become anything like their Creator.”
Abby nods reluctantly. “It’s a tricky topic,” she admits. “Some people say there’s a temporary punishing place—Purgatory. Souls go there to be forced into believing their Savior is all‑forgiving.”
Diesel snorts. “That’s messed up logic,” he says. “Long‑term spanking doesn’t usually turn kids into kind people.”
“For now,” Evan says, “let’s call the eighth option Unresolved. These souls, while alive, keep imagining a mixed, confusing dream world for themselves. After death, they wait there, in their own fantasy, until they get another body.”
Abby groans softly. “Too many options,” she says. “I’ll hold on to my two for now. But I do see your point. Maybe I’m just not ready to let go of the fairy tale—guaranteed, instant, eternal happily‑ever‑after.”
“I don’t want to think about any of it,” Diesel says. “So I’ll say there’s no choice at all. Poof. We dissolve. That idea gives me maximum freedom to do whatever I want with no consequences.”
“Why wouldn’t every consciousness just instantly re‑embody?” Rev asks. “Why wait?”
“Even I see the problem with that,” Diesel says. “A baby isn’t born every time someone dies. There’s always a waiting period between bodies.”
Reviewing the extensive list, they go over a summary of the eight afterlife options and cosmic law to clarify the rules governing human souls. Rev taps Evan’s paper. “So the spirit either stops existing, waits for another body, or stops needing bodies altogether. Two ways to vanish, four kinds of waiting rooms, and one way to permanently ascend. That’s a lot.”
Evan nods. “To summarize:
• Dissolvers disappear quickly.
• Insolvent beings disintegrate slowly.
• Revolvers re‑embody after a waiting period.
• Absolvers are forgiven guests in a personal heaven.
• Resolvers haunt the physical world until they settle their grudges.
• The Unresolved float in astral make‑believe.
• Devolvers spiral downward toward disintegration.
• Evolvers advance toward graduation.”
Abby points at his list. “What’s the real difference between Resolvers and the Unresolved?”
“Resolvers stay stuck close to Earth,” Evan says. “They’re in the physical ghost world until they finish their unfinished business. Some sensitive people can see them—spirits with no bodies, still hanging around.
“The Unresolved aren’t haunting Earth. They’re out in the astral, in a fantasyland. They don’t really understand good versus evil. To them, all agendas are equal. So they get stuck in their own fluid, confusing world of half‑truths.”
Abby traces one of the circles on the page with her fingertip. “I’ve always blindly believed in two neat options,” she says slowly. “Heaven or hell. The questions you’re raising… make me want to understand more.
“At some point, an Insolvent soul would have already wasted every gift and every chance. Not worth more grace. I always believed souls are immortal. But it actually makes sense now: dissolving a wicked, disobedient, useless soul feels more merciful than torturing it forever with no chance to change.”
“The soul can either return, cease to be, or graduate,” Evan says. “For souls who don’t graduate and don’t choose to fall apart, there are four optional, personally pre‑created between‑worlds where they wait for their next body.”
Abby looks up sharply. “What do you mean, pre‑created? My Savior creates my heaven, not me.”
“Our thoughts, words, and feelings,” Evan says, “decorate the mystic energy we send out. That energy crystallizes in those four between‑worlds.”
Abby squints at him. “Maybe if you spoke English, I’d understand,” she says.
“Your soul acts in parallel with your physical body,” Evan says. “But in a spiritual dimension. The spiritual world is the original. The physical world is more like its shadow.”
Diesel throws up his hands. “And that,” he says, “is where you lose me every time. I see the physical world. I see my body. No one has proven anything beyond that.”
“Try acting as if the mystic world exists,” Evan says quietly. “Just as an experiment. It can open your mind.”
“You’re asking me to pretend something is real until I’m convinced it is,” Diesel says. “I’m good at fantasy daydreams, but I don’t expect them to spill into reality. The world already has too many blind believers swallowing fairy‑tale nonsense pushed by controlling religious leaders.”
Rev smirks. “There’s a movie where the whole crowd chants, ‘I do believe in fairy tales, I do believe in fairy tales.’”
Evan winces. “You’re right,” he says. “I’m sorry. I was trying to help. My bad habit is digging deep into Life’s laws and then dumping everything I find on people. I want to help classmates drowning in addiction, attachment, depression and suicidal thoughts. I keep forgetting that most students are fine with the school of hard knocks. They don’t want afterlife options. They want to survive this week.”
Diesel claps him on the shoulder. “I appreciate you as a friend,” he says. “I just don’t need saving from some incinerating lake of fire. You said my thoughts, words, and actions create my afterlife. So I’ll keep picturing a clean, surgical cosmic dissection at the end. Total shutdown.”
“Now you’re the one writing fairy tales,” Evan says. “Yes, your thoughts, words, and feelings are creating your afterlife. But you don’t get to dictate how the rules work. You’re constantly sending out mystic energy, whether you know it or not. Those emanations are decorated with your motives. Cosmic law—not your preference—decides what they build.”
“I thought free will means I can create whatever I want,” Diesel says. “I expect to dissolve. So I dissolve. That’s how free will works.”
“Fortunately,” Evan says, “free will can’t rewrite cosmic law. Soul students study to understand the consequences of using mystic energy the wrong way. They want to know ahead of time what to do to get the results they think they want.”
“I don’t know the laws,” Diesel says. “I don’t care to know. Easier to get forgiveness than permission. I’ll claim I didn’t know any better. Too much knowledge kills the vibe.
“I honestly don’t see the line between ‘good’ and ‘evil.’ My choices come from what I feel like doing, not from someone else’s list of rules and values. I’ll live my life Unresolved and switch to being a Dissolver right before I die.”
“You’re free to claim your own version of truth,” Evan says. “But that doesn’t change what you’re actually creating. Your twisted energy keeps crystallizing into a hellish afterlife home, waiting for you with your name on the door.”
“Now you’re the one telling scary stories to kids,” Diesel says. “Your descriptions don’t scare me. I still don’t know. I still don’t care. I’ll see what happens when I get there.”
Abby sighs. “You two are never going to change each other,” she says. “Even if everything Evan says is true, Diesel will refuse to accept it because it limits his free will.”
“I think that’s why the school of hard knocks exists,” Rev says quietly. “The karmic punches keep getting stronger until people can’t ignore them. Unfortunately, Diesel’s bigger hits might not land until his next life.”
“Awesome,” Diesel says. “I don’t plan on coming back. I’ve had enough afterlife talk. I’m going home to play violent video games to ‘balance’ all this out.”
That night and into the next day, Abby, Evan, and Rev discuss Diesel's fate and assign colors to afterlife options in order to better visualize his potential spiritual path. That night, Abby lies awake, staring at the ceiling, one question looping in her mind.
Diesel is not evil. Not really. But is he good? Good enough for Heaven?
The next day at lunch, she corners Evan and Rev at their usual table.
“I’ve been thinking about the simple heaven‑or‑hell model,” she says. “Diesel isn’t a monster who deserves eternal torture. But he’s also not some glowing saint. If my Creator sent him to hell forever, I’d be furious. It would be unfair. It wouldn’t help him. It would only prove to him that my Creator is cruel. The longer it went on, the more he’d hate him.”
“Trying to torture your enemies until they love you doesn’t usually work,” Rev says dryly.
Evan looks at Abby. “If you were the Creator,” he asks gently, “what would you do with Diesel in the afterlife?”
“That’s not fair,” Abby says. “I don’t know. Give me a second.”
“Start with what you wouldn’t do,” Evan suggests.
“I wouldn’t send him to endless hell,” Abby says quickly.
“Maybe he’d finally understand evil exists,” Evan says.
“Maybe,” Abby answers. “But he’d see my Creator as the source of that evil. I can imagine him being punished for a short time—but he’d also need to be shown how virtues actually make life better than chaos and perversion.”
“He sees examples now,” Evan says. “They don’t move him.”
“Too many Tempters?” Rev asks. “Too many confusing voices?”
“Definitely,” Abby says. “What if he could go somewhere with no Tempters at all? Is there a temporary place like that—an afterlife where you literally can’t sin?”
“You’d have to take away his desires and his free will,” Rev says. “He’d be like a frozen statue. Or reincarnated as a tree. Safe, but not learning self‑discipline.”
“I don’t think there are Tempters in the Celestial Sanctuary,” Evan says. “And definitely none in the Etheric Core, where the graduates live.”
“I still think the best option,” Rev says, “is to give Diesel a few thousand lifetimes in the school of hard knocks. Slow but steady.”
“So the spirit can peacefully dissolve,” Abby says slowly, “or slowly burn. It can wait for a new body somewhere… or earn the right to live in a higher, spirit‑only world.”
“I’m grateful life isn’t just black and white,” Evan says. “Maybe it would help to color‑code the options.”
Diesel drops his tray down just in time to hear that. “Dissolvers are blue,” he says. “Sky and ocean. The Unresolved are a gray, confused mix. Evolvers are white. Devolvers are black.”
“Absolvers are pink,” Abby announces. “Because I like pink.”
“Revolvers are yellow,” Rev says. “Feels right.”
“Insolvent souls are fiery red,” Evan adds.
“Resolvers are see‑through,” Rev says. “So… almost clear.”
Evan nods. “So: Blue Dissolvers disappear—Yellow Revolvers re‑embody. Pink Absolvers are forgiven in their dream‑heavens. Clear Resolvers settle their grudges. White Evolvers move toward graduation. Red Insolvents burn out. Gray Unresolved stay confused. Black Devolvers spiral downward.”
Something about seeing it in colors makes the whole thing feel too real.
Changing the subject to the heavenly realms, Evan describes the Celestial Sanctuary of Devachan as a beautifully customized, temporary paradise for the soul. Later, in a quieter corner of the library, Evan pulls out another note.
“Some people call the Celestial Sanctuary Devachan,” he says. “Picture this: you step through a door the moment you die and enter a paradise you helped design without knowing it.
“It feels like a lucid dream, but more solid. Colors are sharper than anything on Earth. Sounds are layered and musical. Everything is like here, but brighter, more luminous, more alive. You can walk through gardens that never die, swim in skies that sing, and travel the universe with a thought.
“You can visit realms of higher vibration. There are endless universes—every idea anyone has ever had exists somewhere.”
Delving into the physics of the spiritual realm, Evan explains the mechanics of the soul in the afterlife, where thoughts manifest instantly. “As soon as the soul slips out of the slow, heavy body,” Evan says, “it accelerates. Your vibration jumps to light‑speed. You start creating whatever you want just by thinking about it.
“No more gravity. No more waiting. No more clunky cause‑and‑effect rules—not in the same way. Your free will shapes everything around you. Nobody tells you what to do. You don’t have to walk. You think, and you’re there. You imagine, and it appears.
“As long as you focus, it feels real. The moment you pull your energy away, it dissolves. No bills. No deadlines. No conflicts—because in that realm, you control your world.
“You can live every dream you missed on Earth,” he adds. “Every adventure you felt cheated out of.”
Moving beyond human limitations, Evan details the soul's super senses and expanded awareness, revealing how perception changes without a physical brain. “The soul’s senses go into overdrive,” Evan says. “You can feel patterns and vibrations in every direction at once. See in a full circle. Your hearing works by using a system of filters so you can listen to many sounds at the same time without getting confused.
“You can choose any body you want—age, health, beauty. You can appear as any character, in any costume. Or as pure light. You no longer need a physical body.
“There’s no time limit,” he continues. “Your mind is wide open, not stuck inside one brain. Your soul is multi‑dimensional. You can be in many places at once—no worries about food, money, or career. Nothing holds you back because whatever you truly imagine, you can experience.
“Attachments loosen,” he says. “Not because you stop caring, but because you start feeling everything through compassion instead of hunger and fear. Negative emotions like terror don’t exist in the higher layers.”
“At first, souls binge,” he admits. “Food, fun, friends, fantasies. But eventually they get bored. They let go of the craving for physical experiences and expand into something bigger—the wholeness of all‑ness. They help others learn art, music and ideas. They choose which communities to live in. They keep taking classes. They work real jobs in subtle worlds.”
Despite the incredible freedoms of the spirit world, Evan warns about soul skills, fake heavens, and astral plane traps that can ensnare a wandering consciousness. “But there’s a danger,” Evan says. “After the human body dies, a soul can get stuck in a fake heaven on the astral plane for a long time.
“This pseudo‑heaven looks like an extended Earth. It feels familiar. But it’s fueled by old traumas, unfulfilled desires, misdeeds, and indulgence. The corrupted shadow side inside a person magnetizes them to that realm, keeping their identity alive as if they still had a body.
“If a human ignores the quiet voice of conscience long enough, they lose contact with their mystic self,” he continues. “A soul without that connection has no guidance for escaping its own addictions and desires. Attachments from physical life act like anchors, chaining the soul to the lower planes so it can’t rise.”
He looks at his friends.
“Mastering mystical powers in a body,” he says, “helps the soul break free from that fake heaven later. The shadows of those who manage to move beyond the astral and into the higher etheric plane get rolled up, compressed, and stored. They stay hidden until the soul agrees to face them again, often in another human body.”
Outside, the late‑afternoon light shifts. For a moment, the classroom windows mirror back four young faces—and behind them, shapes and colors they can’t quite make out yet.
Gathering around a library table, Evan, Diesel, Rev, and Abby map out eight distinct post-mortem possibilities for the soul, moving far beyond the simplistic "heaven or hell" model. Evan details how souls can be Dissolvers, Revolvers, Absolvers, Resolvers, Unresolved, Devolvers, Insolvent, or Evolvers depending on their vibration, choices, and karma. The group explores the mechanics of the afterlife—such as the temporary "Celestial Sanctuary" (Devachan), the dangers of astral plane traps, the expansion of super senses, and how a soul's thoughts decorate its energy into between-worlds. Throughout the debate, Abby clings to her grace-based paradise, Diesel jokes about instant dissolution, and Evan and Rev emphasize that true spiritual progress requires mastering virtues and mystic powers to achieve permanent ascension.
The Eight Post-Mortem Possibilities: Human souls face varied after-death states based on their spiritual evolution: Dissolvers vanish quickly, Insolvent beings disintegrate slowly, Revolvers re-embody, Absolvers rest in a personal heaven, Resolvers haunt Earth to settle grudges, Unresolved souls drift in astral fantasy, Devolvers spiral into corruption, and Evolvers graduate.
The Mechanics of Between-Worlds: The spiritual world acts as an original template where thoughts, words, and feelings crystallize into temporary, pre-created between-worlds or fantasy heavens before souls eventually return to school.
Super Senses and Accelerated Awareness: Post-mortem existence accelerates vibrational frequency, granting light-speed movement, 360-degree vision, multi-dimensional presence, and the ability to choose any form or project intent instantly.
Astral Plane Traps and Fake Heavens: Souls who ignore their conscience and cling to unhealed earthly attachments, traumas, and addictions can get trapped in pseudo-heavens on the astral plane until they are ready to re-embody and face their shadow side.
Evan: The researcher and discussion leader who maps out the eight post-mortem options, the mechanics of the astral realm, and the necessity of soul graduation.
Diesel: A skeptical classmate who prefers the concept of total dissolution (becoming a "Dissolver") to maximize earthly freedom without consequences.
Rev: An analytical classmate who views the afterlife as a spiraling wheel of reincarnation and continuous spiritual growth.
Abby: A student who struggles to reconcile the eight complex post-mortem options with her traditional, binary belief in a simple heaven-or-hell paradise.