I'm curious about the perspective on the afterlife. Since I was young, I've been terrified of returning to nothingness, but now that I know that’s impossible, that part doesn't scare me anymore. I’m not sure if you’ve read Neville Goddard’s later lectures, but he emphasized the concept of "The Promise" and claimed the ultimate goal is becoming one with God. I can’t tell if that’s metaphorical or literal, and I’m genuinely curious about it.
Furthermore, if we continue to live new lives, I worry that I might end up living a life where I completely forget the Law of Assumption. I know that whether we realize it or not, we are always changing and using the Law, but it scares me to think that even if I live a happy, fulfilled life now, I could forget everything in the next one and suffer through deep lack and trauma again. At the same time, living as my current self for eternity doesn't exactly seem like a blessing either. I understand that memory shouldn't be kept forever and that forgetting is sometimes necessary, but it feels like this cycle is predestined, even in the far-off future.
I believe in The Promise. I know I’ve been rambling, but I'm asking you because while Reality Shifting is essentially the same as the Law of Assumption, the shifting communities and blogs don't seem to have a clue about the concept of The Promise. Even in most Law of Assumption circles, people seem to be in the dark about it.
Interesting! You're right; I'd love to see more people speak on their own beliefs about these matters, especially their thoughts on Goddard's beliefs beyond the basics.
I do believe that he was literal when he spoke. That he truly believed in the concept of God and man being one. He believed that consciousness was the one true reality—that the "physical" was all and purely created by consciousness to experience.
"God really and truly exists in man – in every human being. God wholly becomes us. He is not our virtue but our Real Selves – Our Imagination."
"My mystical experiences have brought me to accept literally, the saying that all the world’s a stage. And to believe that God plays all the parts. The purpose of the play? To transform man, the created, into God, the creator. God loved man, his created, and became man in faith that this act of self-commission would transform man – the created, into God – the creator.
"So God dies – that is to say – God has freely given Himself for man. Deliberately, He has become man and has forgotten that He is God, in the hope that man, thus created, will eventually rise as God."
Anyway, my belief is that your power to create and experience what you want doesn't fade away when the physical body dies because awareness never dies. So there's really no reason to worry about death or forgetting the law. In my opinion, once you learn it, you would have to either choose to forget again or truly believe (and want to experience) that you will forget in the next life. But if you want to keep going with this knowledge into the next life or choose to never experience a physical death, then that will be true for you.
As for being the same person forever, well, I think this is where having wildly new experiences and lives comes into play. You can choose to grow up again under different circumstances. You can choose to learn new things and experience completely different ways of life. Maybe one day you're a ruler of a land and the next you're a worker in that same kingdom. You can experience being a barn cat or hired muscle or a pirate or a dragon. Maybe one day you're the mean dragon keeping the princess locked away and the next you're the nice dragon keeping her company until she can escape.
Do you see what I'm getting at? You will never be the same person. Even if you never forget any of this. You are constantly learning and growing. You are constantly experiencing new things, seeing new perspectives, meeting new people. You will never be the same! There will always be something new for you to explore, something new to learn, something new to love or hate. Awareness is never static.
So, regardless of how you want to handle the "future" or what you believe comes after death or even what the meaning of life is and what we're all destined for, trust me when I say you will never be the same person. There will be remnants of you across all experiences, but as long as you continue to experience and live, you will always be changing and shifting and rearranging yourself.
The most important thing to remember is that you are the power. Everything stems from you. So if there is something that you truly do not want to experience, you don't have to. You don't have to forget anything. You don't have to be exactly the same forever. You don't have to be or live anything you don't want to. It's all you! You make the decisions!