Personally I’ve had way too many experiences with death to not believe that our core energy, or soul if you like, does transition into something else after we leave the body we currently are living in. I was brought up in a family of very devout Catholics who believe in Heaven and Hell. They all believed in life after death and they taught me to believe as well. Eventually I found my own path to spirituality and had a dear friend who had at one point in his life been a Buddhist priest. He shared some beautiful secrets about life after death which gave me great peace. At various points in my life, especially when I lived in a haunted house for a year, I’ve experienced what seemed to be ghosts or energies from different realms. I took those experiences at face value because I had no idea what was happening. When my father passed away unexpectedly I had a series of unusual experiences with his energy, if you want to call it that, after he has left his body. They were very real and in some cases kinda freaked me out.