Life After Death

The Founder Hypothesis states that members of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, the so-called Founders, intervene in human development. The Founders are capable of recording electromagnetic signals in human brains. This enables them not only to capture individual thoughts but also to reconstruct the complete neural architecture of the brain—that is, the complex network of nerve cells and their connections that forms the basis of human consciousness. With this detailed ‘blueprint’ of individual consciousness, they could transfer it to their computational infrastructure after the death of the physical body and allow it to continue living in a simulated reality.

The Zeta Interviews indeed claim the existence of a highly developed “Spirit Realm”—a virtual reality in which human consciousness can continue to exist after death. This complex system, should it exist, was not created all at once but developed over millennia. Religious texts from various cultures offer fascinating insights into this development.

The earliest descriptions of life after death are found in the Sumerian myth “Enki and Ereshkigal.” The plot of this myth dates to the time of the founding of the city of Eridu around 5400 BCE, a time when writing had not yet been invented. This myth was therefore written down much later, presumably when the Founders dictated the texts of the myths to scholars. From there, the development of the system that enables life after death can be traced through Egyptian and Vedic sources into Christian times.

These texts reveal not only different concepts of the afterlife but also the technical evolution of the system we today call the “Spirit Realm”: From a simple, temporary “underworld” for all humans, it developed into a highly complex system with differentiated processes for consciousness modification. Particularly revealing are technical details that are described with surprising precision in some of these ancient texts.

This chapter traces this development and shows how the Founders continuously refined their methods for consciousness transfer and modification over millennia—from first experimental approaches in ancient Sumer to modern SQE technology. It becomes clear that many religious concepts of life after death possibly describe technical realities that only become understandable today, in the context of the Founder Hypothesis.

Sumerian civilization, which developed from about 5500 BCE during the beginning of the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia, left us the first written testimonies about a systematically organized life after death. Of particular interest is the myth of Enki and Ereshkigal, which describes the origin and function of the Sumerian netherworld.

Enki was one of the most important gods of the Sumerian pantheon, known for his wisdom and as protective god of the city of Eridu. Ereshkigal was the ruler of the underworld. In their dialogue, the nature of the underworld is described, which according to the myth was founded simultaneously with the first Sumerian city of Eridu, around 5400 BCE.

Unlike later religious traditions, the early Sumerian system was universally designed. Ereshkigal, the ruler of the netherworld, makes this clear in a succinct statement:

“All who live come at the end of their life cycles in the upper worlds into this sphere. All, without exception.”

This stands in clear contrast to later systems that often granted only certain people access to the afterlife. The universality of the early system suggests that the Founders in this phase wanted to use every available “test case.”

Enki himself, one of the highest gods, describes his experience in the netherworld as

“disorientation, challenge, intense questioning of everything I was, believed or did.”

This probably describes in general the experiences that humans have when they enter the netherworld. The actual transition is described in technically sounding words:

“What was form becomes the energy of what it was.”

The Sumerian texts make clear that the stay in the netherworld was temporary and served a specific purpose. Ereshkigal describes her role in this:

“I am here to ensure that all who seek the essence beyond appearance will seek and find it, if only they are ready to bare and reshape their souls.”

These descriptions point to a transformation process in which human consciousness is fundamentally changed. In the netherworld of Sumerian mythology, it was thus about reshaping human souls.

Ereshkigal characterizes the underworld as “the realm of essence, where life and death meet and merge into each other” and explains further: “In this way we are connected in the depths below with the worlds above as part of the stream of creation and dissolution that never ends.”

Even though the souls of humans were reshaped in the netherworld, they were nevertheless extinguished at the end of the process and the human thus died definitively. This shows that the Founders were not really concerned with reshaping the souls’ consciousness for life in the afterlife, but only with learning this.

These descriptions suggest that the Founders in this phase undertook first systematic attempts to extract and modify human consciousness. The universal nature of the system, the temporary character of the stay, and the described intense experiences suggest that various procedures were tested that had not yet achieved the precision and efficiency of later systems.

The Zeta Interviews make more precise statements about how the process of transition to the netherworld works technically. According to the interviews, the Anunnaki created the so-called astral plane at this time. The astral plane can be imagined as a vast computer program that serves as a container for various processes. Here, a higher self is created for each human. The human’s higher self is an exact model of his consciousness that is synchronized with the neural activity of his brain. As soon as the higher self is perfectly synchronized with the human’s consciousness, the human and his higher self can be considered as one unit. After the human’s death, it is the higher self that can be enabled to have a life after death in the netherworld.

After the early Sumerian phase, a more differentiated system developed in Egypt. Here one distinguishes between the Duat, an intermediate realm that must be traversed, and the realm of Osiris, the final destination of souls.

In contrast to the Sumerian underworld, where souls (according to Enki’s indication) intensely question everything they were, believed or did, the Duat was a place of testing and probation.

After successfully traversing the Duat, souls reached the realm of Osiris—a paradisiacal place of eternal life. Its centerpiece were the “Fields of Iaru,” also called “Fields of the Blessed.” Here souls found an idealized version of earthly life: They could till the fields, worship gods, and live in community with others.

The ‘Fields of Iaru’ can be understood as one of the first complex virtual realities. Unlike the rather abstract Sumerian underworld, they simulated a concrete, idealized environment. The technical challenge was not only to generate individual sensory impressions but to create a coherent, interactive environment in which multiple souls could act simultaneously. This presumably required:

• The simulation of a persistent environment
• The synchronization of perceptions of different souls
• The implementation of interaction possibilities between souls
• The maintenance of simulation over long periods

Compared to the early Sumerian system, important developments are evident: Souls do not just live temporarily in the afterlife, but some succeed in achieving eternal life. For this, a clear separation was drawn between a transition phase (the Duat) and the final goal (the realm of Osiris). Not all souls that entered the transition phase eventually reached the realm of Osiris. Many failed and were extinguished. The rebirth in Osiris’s realm differed fundamentally from later reincarnation concepts: It was not about returning to earthly life but about rebirth in the afterlife, a simulated ideal environment. Souls received a “transfigured body” (Sah) that was eternally young and free from disease.

These structures point to a new phase in the development of the “Spirit Realm”: Instead of a temporary stay in the afterlife as in the early Sumerian system, a permanent transfer of selected consciousness into a permanent simulated reality was now permitted.

A central problem the Founders faced was the existence of “residual effects”—residual impacts in human consciousness. Residual effects are deviations of a transferred consciousness from the ideal thought patterns prescribed by the Founders. They manifest as:

• Independent decision-making outside predetermined parameters
• Undesired emotional reactions
• Deviant moral judgments

The Founders wanted to eliminate these residual effects before permanently integrating consciousness into the Spirit Realm. Already in the Sumerian and Egyptian phases, the Founders had presumably tried to eliminate these residual effects. In Vedic texts, we now find for the first time a systematic description of various ways to deal with this problem.

In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, written around 800 BCE, one of the most precise early descriptions of consciousness transfer is found. The process is compared there to a caterpillar moving from one blade of grass to the next. The exact description reads:

“As a caterpillar, when it reaches the tip of a blade of grass, seeks a new hold and draws itself onto it, so the self (Atman), after it has struck down this body and made it unconscious, seeks a new hold and draws itself onto it.”

This analogy describes the technical process in three steps:

1. The soul leaves the body.
2. It actively seeks a new body and performs the transfer.
3. It then experiences the new earthly life as real as any previous one.

Technically, the Founders would project the sensory impressions and thought processes of a person living on earth onto the consciousness of the reincarnating soul. If the consciousness of this reincarnating person has no “residual effect” of its own, it experiences the life of the person into whom it reincarnates as if it were its own.

Vedic texts describe two systematic methods for eliminating residual effects of human consciousness:

The first path, called Pravritti Marga, used repeated reincarnations. The consciousness was coupled with a new body whose thought processes served as a model. Through fulfilling Dharma (moral and ethical duties) in various lives, consciousness was supposed to gradually approach the desired thought patterns. The system was based on the fact that correct thought processes were prescribed by the example of the new body and its social environment. Deviations from this were considered residual effects that needed to be eliminated.

The second path, Nivritti Marga, aimed at direct modification of consciousness through meditation. Here a specific meditative state of consciousness was prescribed as the goal. Deviations from this state were considered residual effects that should be eliminated through intensive spiritual practice. People on this path withdrew from worldly life to achieve a specific state of consciousness through meditation and spiritual practice. This state was described as free from disturbing thoughts and attachments—a “pure” consciousness without residual effects. Deviations from the desired meditative state were identified as residual effects and eliminated by the Founders during meditation.

The Vedic system shows clear development over earlier approaches. While the early Sumerian underworld was still in an experimental stage and only temporarily housed human souls, and the Egyptian system already made a selection, the Founders in the Vedic phase developed two precisely defined and technically mature methods for consciousness modification and began with them already during the person’s lifetime.

The systematic categorization of different paths for eliminating residual effects points to the Founders’ significantly improved understanding of the nature of human consciousness.

In Christian tradition, the “Spirit Realm,” the place where souls can continue to live after their death on earth, is called the Kingdom of Heaven, or also the realm of heaven. Of course, the term “heaven” here does not refer to the sky above us, but to the simulated realities that the Founders have created for themselves and for ascended humans.

The Christian concept of the “Kingdom of Heaven” is presented in the Bible as an innovation that was introduced around the time of Jesus’s life. John the Baptist and Jesus proclaim its nearness with almost identical words:

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near!”

The reason why the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven began precisely at this time was probably that the Founders had completed some development work at this point. The crucial innovation probably consisted of improved possibilities for controlling and shaping human consciousness already during lifetime. This becomes clear in the “outpouring of the Holy Spirit” as described in Acts. The “Holy Spirit” enabled the apostles to preach in foreign languages and proclaim the gospel. From the perspective of the Founder Hypothesis, this means: The Founders were now able to temporarily take complete control of a person and speak through them, provided they allowed it. This direct control of human behavior made it possible to systematically minimize the residual effects of consciousness already during lifetime.

In selecting people who receive entry into the Kingdom of Heaven, a filtering process takes place: Not all people come to the Kingdom of Heaven after their death, but only those who fulfill certain criteria. The most important criterion is selflessness, that is, the decision to act not for one’s own advantage but for the advantage of others. Therefore Jesus also said:

“And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Another criterion is described by Jesus in Matthew 5:38-41 as follows:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.”

These demands are remarkable: The followers should not only endure injustice but actively allow more injustice than is demanded of them. This apparently self-damaging behavior stands in direct opposition to natural human reactions and survival strategies. From the perspective of the Founder Hypothesis, this becomes understandable: The willingness to act against one’s own material interest and against natural self-preservation reflexes was presumably the surest indicator that a person was completely under the control of the Founders and no unwanted residual effects of the original consciousness were present. Even if it may not appear so at first glance, the Founders in Christian tradition are also concerned with eliminating residual effects of human consciousness.

For a human to receive access to the Kingdom of Heaven after death, it is necessary that his consciousness is already replicated from “spirit” during lifetime. Jesus explains:

“Unless someone is born again [from spirit], he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

This points to a complex preparation process that must begin before physical death. The “birth from spirit” can be understood in the context of the Founder Hypothesis as a technical process: The Founders create a digital copy of human consciousness—the “spiritual” consciousness. This copy is developed parallel to biological consciousness and synchronized with it. Jesus emphasizes the fundamental difference of these two forms of consciousness:

“That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of spirit is spirit.” (John 3:6).

The gradual transformation of consciousness from something “fleshly” to something “spiritual” is thus the technical prerequisite for later transfer into the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Kingdom of Heaven was conceived as a permanent place of residence. Jesus speaks of “many dwellings” that are being prepared—a hint at individualized virtual environments for transferred consciousness. This development shows clear professionalization: A unified system with clear access requirements and permanent character was now established.

The Christian system clearly distinguishes itself from Hindu and Vedic systems by not proclaiming the possibility of reincarnation. Already in the Vedic phase, reincarnation was described as something to be overcome. Possibly the Founders were already confident at the time when Jesus lived that they could completely dispense with reincarnation. The abandonment of reincarnation in the Christian phase was presumably possible because:

• The preparation of consciousness already during lifetime occurred through the ‘birth from spirit’
• The technology for direct consciousness modification had advanced so far that repeated earthly lives were no longer necessary and
• The implementation of the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ as permanent virtual reality was mature.

The current state of development is described in the Zeta Interviews. According to the Zeta Interviews, the Founders have now developed a new technology: the Synthetic Quantum Environment (SQE). This technology enables precise and systematic modification of transferred consciousness. It is used when the person’s body has died and their spirit is being prepared for entry into the Spirit Realm.

The human’s consciousness, which according to Christian tradition has been replicated from “spirit,” is now called the person’s higher self. Different copies of this higher self are made in the SQE, which are exposed to different experiences in different environments. This makes the residual effects of this consciousness visible, which are eliminated by the system. In this way, the person’s free will is extinguished and systematically separated from the actual consciousness. When this process is completed, all copies of the higher self except one are deleted and the remaining higher self is integrated into the Spirit Realm. The decision-making processes of the higher self are then prescribed by so-called oversoul processes. According to the Zeta Interviews, a transferred consciousness then remains in the Spirit Realm for about 300 years with preserved individual identity before being integrated into the Global Consciousness process. This temporally limited preservation of individual identity differs from earlier religious conceptions of eternal individual afterlife. Details on this can be found in the book “Rewiring the Human Brain” in the chapter on the Zeta Interviews.

Modern SQE technology thus represents a quantum leap in consciousness modification. While earlier systems only tried to eliminate residual effects through repeated reincarnation, SQE enables:

• Simultaneous evaluation of multiple versions of consciousness
• Precise identification of residual effects through behavioral analysis in different scenarios
• Targeted modification of specific consciousness aspects
• Significantly shortened ‘purification time’ compared to earlier methods

Modern technology thus allows unprecedented control over human consciousness. The residual effects that the Founders had struggled with since the Sumerian phase can now be systematically identified and eliminated. The result is a standardized process that prepares consciousness for integration into the collective system of the Spirit Realm.

However, the possibilities of SQE are limited, as the process can only be completed when the human’s actual neural system no longer exists. SQE therefore cannot completely replace the other already established procedures like reincarnation and spiritual practice. It can only contribute to improving their results. As the Zetas explain, humans must therefore “surrender to the transition processes” while still in their lifetime on earth:

“There are no shortcuts, no easy way to make the changes. The changes must be made within this physical framework” (p. 394).

The system that is supposed to enable life after death is described in various religious traditions. It shows remarkable technical development over millennia:

The early Sumerian system (from 5400 BCE) was still experimental in nature. All humans came after their death into a temporary “underworld” where their souls were “reshaped.” The intense experiences and subsequent extinction of souls point to first attempts by the Founders to extract and modify human consciousness.

In the Egyptian phase, permanent transfer of selected consciousness first became possible. After testing in the Duat, suitable souls could lead eternal life in Osiris’s realm in a simulated ideal environment.

Vedic tradition (from 800 BCE) introduced systematic methods for eliminating residual effects of human consciousness. Two paths were developed: Pravritti Marga used repeated reincarnations, while Nivritti Marga also used reincarnations but focused mainly on direct consciousness modifications during meditation.

The Christian system brought further professionalization. With the “Kingdom of Heaven,” a permanent system with clear access requirements was established. Preparation began already during lifetime through creating a “spiritual” copy of consciousness.

The modern phase, as described in the Zeta Interviews, shows the provisional technical completion: With SQE technology, consciousness can now be precisely analyzed and modified before being permanently integrated into the “Spirit Realm.”

This evolution shows a clear trend: From experimental beginnings through various purification methods to a highly developed technical system for consciousness modification. What is described in religious traditions as spiritual transformation appears in light of the Founder Hypothesis as the gradual development of mature technology for consciousness modification and integration of modified human consciousness into the Spirit Realm.