God, our Heavenly Father, has made available to us a divine plan . We have the opportunity, potential and capacity to ascend all the way to where God personally resides. If we accept this ascension career, this divine plan, and desire to do the Father s will, upon mortal death we will receive another form on another sphere. Our personality will survive and indwell this new form along with the divine fragment that is in us now, which is what makes it possible for us to survive mortal death and is what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Everything that we have experienced that is of survival value, which is the soul, will also indwell this new form along with our memory.
Nothing can take the place of experience.
The only thing that we gain from death itself is the fact that we experience survival . There are no short cuts. What we do not learn here we must learn sooner or later. If we reject this ascension career, this divine plan, and make a knowing and conscious decision not to do the Father s will, upon mortal death the personality will not survive . We will cease to exist and be as if we never were.