It is important to understand who we are in physical life
because this begins to answer the question
of who we are in the afterlife.
On earth we are the combination of body, mind, and spirit.
We are also in the present- all the time.
Even though we may be thinking about the past or planning for the future,
we are always and ever in only one place- our present.
So right now you are a dynamic of mind, body and spirit
in your present reading this text.
What the self consists of changes somewhat
in the death transition.
Self realization in the afterlife is the understanding
that we are the combination of mind and spirit
without the physical body.
But many things do not change after death, for example:
-we are still in the location where we died,
-we still have the same personality,
-we are still in our present after death.