I was thinking today about how the afterlife works, what allows our consciousness to move from this world into God's reality. After some thought I have concluded that our relationship to the next world and the connections we make with it in this world that live on, by knowing God. What is connecting us to this world is our perceptions of it, it is our reality. However once we leave it behind and we have no conscious mind existing on Earth we become conscious of God's reality and live in it.