[* I call it a 'nameless thing' because I don't really want to connotate too much towards anything except for it's distinctiveness in comparison to the material universe but I regard it active, not passive]This brings to my mind a quote I like from the Psychonaut:
''The center of consciousness is formless and without qualities
of which mind can form images. There is no-one at home. Kia is anonymous. We are an incomprehensible biomystic force-field, from hyperspace, if you like, with a mind and body attached.''
The Psychonaut, p.164
There is something nameless* that binds all things together and consciousness is the transcendent aspect that unites us with that nameless thing.
I'm more 'agnostic' on what the state of being is after death but I lean towards suspicion that something happens, whether it's union itself with that nameless thing or reincarnation etcAlso this from the same chapter.
Let me repeat my startlingly simple
message. The real Holy Guardian Angel is just the force of
consciousness, magic, and genius itself — nothing more. This
cannot manifest in a vacuum; it is always expressed in some form,
but its expressions are not the thing itself.
There are perhaps only two things one can do to invoke the
real HGA or Kia. Firstly, the ego can be put in its place by
deliberately seeking union with anything one has rejected.
Secondly, the hidden god force Kia can be felt as the root of all acts
of consciousness, magic, and genius by performing as diverse and
extensive a series of these acts as possible.
Invoke often, as the oracle said.
And banish Choronzon whenever it manifests.