Death & Reincarnation

It's a question every human being has asked at one time or another: What happens when we die?

Since beliefs form our perceptions, there's really only one group of people who can give us a clue as to what actually happens during the death process: those of us who've had Near Death Experiences or NDE's.

I've had 5 full fledged NDE's, during which time I was clinically dead for varying amounts of time.
I traveled all the way back home and on my 5th NDE deliberately tested the Draconian Reptilian "reincarnation trap" many believe exists. But more on that later...

The first thing one needs to know is that "death" as we've been taught to believe in it doesn't exist. You never die. Much like a snake shedding its skin, you simply leave the physical body behind. Everything else remains intact and through the entire 'death' process you are every bit as conscious as you are right now, reading this. You simply transfer to the Angelic realm, then it's on to the next incarnation if that's what you choose to do in order to further evolve spiritually.

The second thing you need to know is that you pre-script your death experience before you ever incarnate anywhere - your exit point, how to go, what you death experience will be like. This is done strictly between you and your Angelic mentor or spirit guide. (Call it what you will.) It is part of your soul contract, as are all of the spiritual lessons you choose to learn while incarnated.

I know right now you're probably saying to yourself "Why would I choose to come to this shitshow planet? Why would I contract to do that?"

Why? Because right now you're thinking in earth terms...but there's nothing earthly about the 'death' process. You really can't put the process in any earthly terms or adequately give it earthly analogies. Upon 'death' there's a moment of "awakening" where you become aware of the entire cosmic big picture. You do not think in the terms you're thinking now, you could care less about the earthly incarnation you just left. All of the hardships, suffering etc. you experienced on earth are completely forgotten. You have an entirely new cosmic perspective that you didn't have while on earth - including "I'm never going back to earth again!"

Five times I've had the choice to return or not. All five times I chose to return, my perspective having shifted from an earthly perspective to that much bigger picture cosmic awareness.

The 3 Types Of Souls

There are 3 types of souls - new or beginner, adult or intermediate and very advanced or old souls.

THE BEGINNER SOUL

The “Beginner Soul” is in its turn grouped into two sub-categories, where the first one the the young soul, who hasn’t had the chance to incarnate that many times in the physical. Secondly, we have the souls who have been incarnating for quite some time, but still are acting immaturely and haven’t developed close to what was expected.

The beginner soul sometimes lives a number of lives in relative confusion, having a hard time figuring out the Earth curriculum; they are used to the supportive harmony in time/space. They have a tendency to surrender to the social structure of the planet and more easily fall for propaganda and the “functional insanity” which is so dominant on our planet. They can be brilliant in some ways, but often lack the compassion for others and are usually self-centered and don’t have the ability to think outside the box, or even independently.

The young soul may stay around for a while, a little confused over being dead and not able to directly communicate with his/her relatives and friends. These souls may also try to hang on to possession that were dear to them during their lives and which they now miss. They may also want to stay around to make sure their body is taken well care of.

When this category of souls have stayed around for a little while, the soul normally leaves. Leaving means that it separates from the Earth planes and is drawn towards a dark tunnel which seems pretty much like a wormhole or a black hole in space.

Quite soon, the soul is being aware of a bright light at the end of the tunnel, and it is moving rapidly towards this light.

As the soul gets closer to the light, the light gets bigger and brighter, and the departed soul can normally start distinguishing one or more people standing in the light. First they are vague, but are soon getting clearer; the persons waiting are either old relatives (mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents) or dear friends (or soul mates), or all of the above. The recently departed soul is greeted by these people; quite an emotional reunion is taking place, and an overwhelming feeling of love and joy is filling up the departed soul. It feels like it wants to stay there forever because of the incredible feeling of oneness with its loved ones.

After that, the relatives withdraw and tell the departed soul that it will be assisted in crossing over by its Spirit Guide and that they will all meet again soon. So they disappear and the Spirit Guide, who normally was there in the background all the time, but often went unnoticed by the departed soul, due to his/her focus on the loved ones, now steps forward to help the newcomer.

THE INTERMEDIATE SOUL

These souls, who are more mature than the Beginner Souls, tend not to cluster as much as the first category. This doesn’t mean they live in isolation, but they are more independent than the immature souls, and want to develop more separately. Still, they mingle with their own soul group, but not on an as regular basis as the Beginners. This category normally don’t incarnate as often either.

In the intermediate soul, the relationship between the soul and their spirit guide is one of working together like colleagues - versus the teacher/student relationship the beginner soul engages in. We become more and more like teachers of our own, and will eventually come to a point where we can teach others, and act as their Spirit Guide, while our own Spirit Guide overlooks our performance, once we’ve started teaching. Not all intermediate souls go on to guide others, however!

The adult soul, instead of hanging around after body death, usually moves on quite quickly, moving through the tunnel and meeting with the Spirit Guide. Everything happens quite rapidly, as if this is just some routine that needs to be done rather than that it’s actually necessary, and then the soul moves on from there and normally joins path with other souls in its soul group.

THE ADVANCED SOUL

Advanced souls are quite rare on Earth. (I know you all like to think of yourselves as "old souls" but that's simply not the reality of the situation. Sorry.

Advanced souls have incarnated amongst other, more advanced civilizations. This makes sense, because there would no longer be any reason to incarnate on a relatively primitive planet like Earth, as there wouldn’t be much of a learning experience anymore. These souls are already operating on a conscious, multi-dimensional level.

The advanced soul often doesn’t even meet with its Guide right away, but knows where to go and travels to its destination immediately, eager to move on.

What happens to a soul that has led a violent and criminal life to the extreme? These souls sometimes get separated from the rest after body death. They are so damaged that they can’t interact with the other souls, so their Spirit Guides will take them aside and work with them in a kind of quarantine area and they will not merge with the others until they are healed.

Where one goes upon 'death' depends on which soul category they fall into. No, you don't go to "Heaven" as that is a fictional place. "Heaven" and "Hell" merely denote states of being or mind. What does exist is far better than what people imagine "Heaven" to be like, so no need to get all in a tizzy about the fact one doesn't go to "Heaven". Everyone goes to the Angelic realm but there are different levels to the Angelic realm to accommodate the personal vibrational level one is at when they "die".

In spirit we are in energy form and even one's energy has a personal vibrational level. We cannot exist in any form in a higher vibrational level that does not match our own personal vibrational level. Dolores Cannon explains these 3 soul destinations. She uses the terms "astral levels". It's not the term I would use...but you'll get the jist regardless.

Most of you will go to the intermediate level or what you think of as "Heaven". Dolores is correct, it's absolutely beautiful there - far more beautiful than you imagine "Heaven" to be.

When you arrive, your guide will take you to the Orientation Center. The Angelics have been charged with the accounting of every soul ever created, where it is at any given time in the cosmos during your various incarnations. This process is rather like your soul checking in at a hotel but it takes place within the Orientation Center, which is like a huge train station in appearance. (Below)

Meeting the Divine Council of Elders

Once your soul has been accounted for, your guide will take you to meet with the Divine Council of Elders. (No, they are not the New Age invented fictional "Ascended Masters"!)
Dolores describes the buildings in the Angelic realm as "temples" but they're referred to as "Halls". They're not temples. You meet with the Divine Council in the Hall of Justice, where the Council presides from.

These dudes are very imposing when you initially meet them. Imagine yourself as an ant standing in front of the Sears Tower and looking up at it. The Council members are HUGE and you can feel the power they hold rolling off of them.

They're very no nonsense, yet at the same time you feel how unconditionally loving they are and they have wonderful senses of humor.

There are 12 of them and how you see them depends on your soul level.
Those of the Intermediate soul level will see them as looking much like Moses, with long white hair and beards, dressed in white hooded robes. They will appear to be of a male gender.

The Advanced souls see them in their light form, sans gender - but still wearing the white hooded robes.

I previously described Jmmanuel as one of these Council Elders and how he'll change

appearance from being a much younger man to looking like Moses, which is why I called him "Moses Dude", until I figured out it was him. "Moses Dude" is what the Council members look like.

While the Council is not prosecutorial, they do engage in direct examination of a soul’s activities - more from a tutoring or teaching standpoint. This is to prepare you for both your life review and your future or next incarnation, if you decide to incarnate again. It is not like a formal court proceeding or anything like that...more like you're just having a conversation with them.

The Council can be firm and “bluntly honest” with us when we are standing before them, but they emit an abundance of compassion and patience for a soul’s weaknesses. We will be given a lot of “second chances” in future lives. However, most lifetimes will have challenges that are at the level of, or slightly above, the capacity for the soul to handle. If that wouldn’t be the case, the soul wouldn’t learn much. Still, on occasion, it is decided, in council with the soul, that it needs an easier life next time, sometimes due to extreme difficulties in the previous life, and the soul now needs to “rest”.

When a soul is leaving a council meeting, most have the feeling they were told more about what they did right than what they did wrong. The council knows that the soul has already had a “critical meeting” with its Spirit Guide, and it looks like the council always wants to leave the soul in an encouraged state of mind, but still raise its expectations. The council absorbs the soul’s self-doubt and cleanses it during these meetings.

After meeting with the Council, your guide will take you to reunite with your soul group or "soul family" as many people here refer to it. Your soul group are members of your earth family and friends that have passed before you. They kind of act like a "Welcome Home!" committee and meeting them again is a phenomenally joyful experience. Yes, you'll see your departed pets as well.

Many people believe they will be joined at the hip with say, a spouse they lost and wish to be reunited with...but that's not how it works. Yes, you will meet up again with that person but you will not be joined at the hip with them for eternity because each of you are traveling your own spiritual paths. However, there is no sadness experienced at not being joined at the hip with them, as one would experience on earth. You understand they must be free to travel their path and you must be free to travel your spiritual path and this is experienced in a state of joy.

The Life Review

This will come as a shock to many of you but there is no judgement whatsoever by ANYONE apart from you judging your own performance during your own earthly life you just left. You do this during your life review and this is performed on what earthlings have called the "Scanning Machine" below.

Your guide will take you to the Hall where this scanning machine is located for your life review.

I was allowed to watch an elderly woman who'd recently passed go through the process. She was a grandmotherly sort with what we'd call a heart of gold. She always went out of her way in her earthly life to be kind and helpful to others and never deliberately hurt anyone.

You may have heard someone who had a brush with death say "I saw my life flash before my eyes". The scanning machine is where that saying originated from. Your entire earthly life including every person you ever crossed paths with plays out in a holographic 'video' form in the domed top of the scanning machine. But you don't just watch it. You FEEL it from the perspective of every person you crossed paths with in your earthly life.
If you made them happy and feel loved, you will feel that just as they did. If you hurt them, you feel that hurt you inflicted just as they felt it. Then you judge your own performance.

The grandmotherly woman I watched go through the process was a sobbing heap on the floor at the end of her life review. I thought to myself Holy crap! If SHE'S this much of a mess, what am I going to be at the end of my life review?!! I vowed right then and there to watch my every word, thought, action - knowing some day my turn at that machine will come.

No, there's no standing before "God" who reads off a laundry list of your offenses. We humans being not the brightest light bulbs in the factory to begin with would learn nothing that way.
We'd go right out and commit the same offenses again. But FEELING the pain you inflicted on another? You're going to think twice before doing it again, knowing how it felt to the person you hurt.

I imagine this is why most souls decide they're going to reincarnate in order to improve their behavior and performance and continue to spiritually evolve.

The Hall Of Records

Dolores Cannon mentioned a library in her video. This is it - the Hall of Records.

© Life On The Other Side by Sylvia Browne

The Hall of Records is GIANORMOUS. In the vestibule is a statue of a man holding a planet over his head. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves containing ancient scrolls and manuscripts stretch as far as the eye can see, both in the vestibule and in the 2 wings that extend off the domed portion of the Hall. The Hall of Records contains every single word ever written by anyone, anywhere.
Nestled off the hallway of the 2 wings are also classrooms and study areas for those using the library.

Just a head's up...there are no doorways in the Angelic realm. One passes through solid walls. I mention this because the first time I did this at the Hall of Records it startled the hell out of me.

The Gardens

You'll definitely want to check out the gardens during your stay in the Angelic realm. They are absolutely exquisite, everything blooming in a state of perfection.

They're much like our earth gardens although much larger. They contain water features, footpaths, seating areas, statuary, etc.

However, they differ in that they all have crystal rods jutting up out of them. These are like very advanced computers that provide the light and temperature control in the Angelic realm - where it's always a sunny 73°.

These crystal rods catch the light and cast a pastel rainbow affect over the gardens that is just breathtaking.

The gardens surrounding the Hall of Justice are phenomenal and stretch for miles.

My sketch of the Gardens

The Resting Phase

Some of those who pass go into what I call the "Resting Phase" to adjust to being back in spirit form and having left earth. The best way I can illustrate this is via a spirit box session done with actor, Matthew Perry the day after he passed from a heart attack and drowning in his hot tub.

Matthew is on the Adjustment Level, adjusting to having just left earth and being back in spirit.

Matthew says "Miss slowly, I am homesick." He then states he's missing his cell phone.

He's also met briefly with his Angelic mentor - and will have more meetings at a later date.

This adjustment to being back in spirit is what I call the Resting Phase. During the Resting Phase spirit communication with those here on earth is very difficult at best - because the person is supposed to be RESTING.

Not all souls need this Resting Phase and for those that do, the period of time they are in the Resting Phase varies from soul to soul.

The Throne Room

Very advanced souls may be taken by their guide to the Throne Room. Yes, there's an actual throne room used by the Creator Source as well as the King and Queen of the Angelics.

To put it in earth terms, the Angelic realm comprises the 7th through 15th densities. The throne room is in the 15th density.

The throne room is enormous in size and rather unique. You know you are in a room yet it feels like you're walking through space at the same time. Believe it or not, Jmmanuel took me there to meet with the Creator - a complete shock to me as I had no idea where I was at the time, much less what was about to happen.

As the King of the Angelics, he was sitting on his throne lit up like a flippen Christmas tree. All he told me was "There's someone I want you to meet." Next thing I know this huge, really powerful energy mass is forming itself into male feet, legs, torso beside me. To say I was gobsmacked would be an understatement. (The Creator will take any form that makes you feel comfortable but it has no gender.)

Long story short, a conversation with the Creator is like talking to your dad and your bestie at the same time. It is unconditionally loving and non judgmental and has one hell of a sense of humor. In fact, it finds "his children" (as it calls us) quite amusing most of the time, according to it.

And if you think the Creator would never communicate with you, you are dead wrong on that front.

Suicides

What happens to those who commit suicide? The belief they go to "Hell" is pure BS.
There is no judgment in the afterlife apart from you judging your own performance during the life review. Period.

We here on earth think in very simplistic black and white terms. For example, good and evil.
Those in the afterlife do not recognize good and evil. They recognize only lessons one has chosen to learn and spiritual improvement - whether the earthly lives they live are what we'd term good or evil.

What happens to a suicide depends on the individual, what kind of person they were in life and the reasons behind why they took their own life. For example:

This young gal took her own life because she "lost the Light".

She lost sight of her own worthiness as a living being and in doing so, lost any love she felt for herself.

I can't name a physical location where these lost souls go...rather, it's like their state of being is one

of a healing density and not a physical place. Wherever they are, they undergo healing while in that state until they realize they are worthy of love. Light = love. Once they've gained that realization they move on to the Angelic realm.

Then there are the cases like Robin Williams.
I knew Robin personally through a friend of his from Detroit Country Day School that I worked with.
So I knew Robin was sick before it was ever announced publicly. However, we all though at that time (including Robin himself) that he had Parkinson's.

It was only discovered after his death that he was actually suffering from late stage Lewy Body Dementia. In late stage Lewy, one suffers delusions and hallucinations, they aren't in their right minds due to the illness. This is where Robin was at when he took his life. It was not his fault he was ill and hallucinating as a result and he had no control over the state his mind was in.
So in cases like Robin's, one goes to the Light.

Then there's cases like the man at left who made the decision his life path during his earthly incarnation was to live life as a satanist.

Those in spirit will usually refer to themselves as being in the Dark or the Light.
Being a satanist, this guy found himself in the Dark.

Almost inevitably they decide they don't like it in the Dark! They want OUT! At that point their guide will approach them and say something like "OK, here's an alternate route you can take during your next incarnation. You decide which way you want to go."

If they decide they'd rather take the alternate path rather than satanism, then the healing process begins on them to do just that - take the alternate path in their next incarnation and LESSON LEARNED. Again, there is no judgment or punishment...merely another spiritual lesson learned and do better next time.

And if the individual is like Jeffrey Epstein who still sees nothing wrong with his earthly conduct? They stay right in the Dark until they accept responsibility for their misconduct - no matter how badly they want out of the Dark or how unjust they feel it is that they're in the Dark to begin with.

The Reincarnation Trap

It never ceases to amaze me how easily human beings can be mislead. Someone doesn't know the answer to something, so they just make up crap and put it out into the public arena and those who use zero discernment lap it up. For example: "You cannot escape the reincarnation trap!"

I've done it during my 5th NDE and it was very simple to do. And why anyone would want to disempower themselves believing they're that powerless is beyond me.

Yes, there is a reincarnation trap in place and here's the story behind it.

The whole 3rd dimension is a trap set up by the very powerful “god”, Anu of the Anunnaki. He and his

people genetically manipulated already existing beings of lower consciousness here on Earth and implanted them with a veil of forgetfulness and a body/mind system which would keep the spirit trapped in the 3rd dimension forever, or until Anu breaks the “spell”.

Atlantis, the ancient “mythical” civilization which Plato and others were describing existed thousands of years ago, and was destroyed around 9,500 BC, was interdimensional to begin with, and inhabited by free spirits that were highly multi-dimensional. Atlantis was a beautiful, and very spiritual place, and the souls who built it here on Earth were very playful, innocent and in certain terms, naive.

Anu, who wanted to play God and was a very power-hungry and smart being, mingled with the Atlanteans, noticed their free spirit, and decided to trap them. So he created solid, physical bodies which he programmed to only be able to perceive a certain small frequency range of light and sound (the current 3-D range), and would thus be separated from the rest of the Multiverse. In addition, he actually created a cloned universe with stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and all the rest of it, which were as solid as the real 4-space/time universe, except the only beings inhabiting this cloned universe were humans. In other words, he successively created his own version of bodies based on the human template (one head, two arms, bipedal) and seeded his own universe with these bodies. According to James, 3-D is only existing as a creation of Anu; the real universe is a Multiverse with multiple dimensions which interact with each other to enable its multi-dimensional inhabitants to have as rich experiences as possible.

Now, Anu wanted to trap these free spirits of Atlantis into the 3 dimensional bodies to lower their frequency and make them his slaves. How could he do that? Why would free spirits even consider entering solid bodies with such great limitations?

For Anu, the answer was easy. He simply programmed the bodies with images and 3-D “movies”. He created something most easily described as a CD running in a constant loop, showing attractive pictures and realities that would interest a curious, naive spirit.

Then, he chose a few souls and talked them into testing his bodies. His guinea pigs were probably reluctant at first, but at the same time curious, and Anu was apparently quite glib and convincing and managed to have a few spirits try the bodies. Due to the fascinating experience, the test subjects told the rest that this was very fun and interesting, and most of the remaining spirits entered the bodies as well. At that point, Anu closed the trap! Since then, we have been trapped in the 3rd dimension, looking up at a universe which is a clone of the real one, sparse of life, and only seeded with biominds/biokinds whom Anu created. Because as soon as he was done with Earth, he went elsewhere and trapped other beings in other parts of the Universe and had them entering his bodies as well. Anu now felt like he was becoming greater or equal to God, because he could create his own, whole universe and put himself in charge over it.

Anu also knew that to be able to keep these spirits trapped, he needed to create a time/space where the spirits could go after their bodies perished. So he did; he created a whole time/space environment of holograms, implant stations, spirit guides, landscapes and everything we can think of. Here the spirit could rest for a while before its memories of the spirit world was erased and then the bodies were shot down into a 3-D body again. In this fashion, the reincarnation cycle has continued for tens of thousands of years.

In addition, the whole cloned universe is existing like a time-loop, so after a certain amount of time, it restarts itself over and over again, just like a CD would, if you put it on “repeat”. The end of such a loop is happening soon, within the next 3 generations. When science and religion meet, we can break the “spell” and so also the walls of the 3rd dimension; we would be free spirits again and part of the richness of the Multiverse!

Furthermore, Anu is no longer here, and Nibiru, which is the planet of the Anunnaki, is no longer a threat. His created spirit world has apparently become an automatic process, and does not need Anu’s attention.

Prophecies are talking about the God(s) coming back in the End Times (which is supposedly now), and these prophecies basically talk about the same God(s), which is Anu and the Anunnaki. However, “plans have been changed” and Anu is not coming back. This is apparently the good news, and we’re left on our own to figure out how to get out of the trap.
(The Angelics have essentially "stalled" Nibiru in its tracks, it's not moving anywhere.)

What people need to understand here is that the cosmic law of non interference applies to EVERY LIVING BEING, including these negative dark forces - and they are fully aware of this fact. THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO POWER OVER YOU APART FROM WHAT YOU YOURSELF ALLOW THEM TO HAVE! Period, end of discussion.

The way they get around that law of non interference is your compliance with their interference! If you do not put it out into the universe "I DO NOT CONSENT TO YOU [LIST WHAT YOU DON'T CONSENT TO]!" then they are free to mess with you. And the cosmic and galactic courts see it the same way. Compliance = consent.

So here's how I escaped the reincarnation trap:

The dark tunnel those who've had NDE's describe is the reincarnation trap. I wanted to test it out myself.
Before even setting foot in that tunnel, I put it out into the universe "I DO NOT CONSENT TO ANY DARK FORCE OR NEGATIVE ENTITIES FROM INTERFERRING IN MY REINCARNATION PROCESS IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER!"

Having done that, I sent down the tunnel all the way to the light at the end of it. Just like my other 4 NDE'S that were to the Angelic realm, I was given the FREE WILL CHOICE to return to earth of not.

The Angelics taught me that NO ONE CAN CONTROL YOUR REINCARNATIONS BUT YOU. And they were right.
When you pass, you'll see that dark tunnel in front of you. Do not enter it. Instead, turn around and look behind you. You'll see a corridor in space that looks something like this:

You head toward that corridor and take that rather than the dark tunnel.
1. Declare your non consent for having your reincarnations messed with by anyone

2. Go through the corridor in space rather than going down the dark tunnel

It's as simple as that to escape the reincarnation trap.

NO ONE can control your reincarnations but YOU - unless you allow them to.

We need to collectively put an end to this "There's no way out of the reincarnation trap" BS disinformation.

We need to keep in mind that we have gone through the afterlife process over and over and we are still here, so whatever the case is, we come out of it in one piece, and mostly it seems to be quite a pleasant experience, whether we’re controlled or not.
All 5 of my NDE'S were nothing short of exhilarating and the ultimate adrenaline rush. I'd go through the 'death' process every day of my life if I could.

The following videos were compiled based on the reports of many people who've had NDE's.
(Ignore that they label it "Heaven".)

Why in God's name would you choose to come back to this Godforsaken planet 5 times?
Because I know my earth mission with the Christ Command isn't finished yet and because I know Lightworkers will be the LAST to leave this planet when the transition happens. I volunteered for this and live up to my commitments. The spiritual reward far outweighs anything that can be done to me here.

What happens to infants that die?
They're considered innocents and go straight to the Light. They don't go through the life review but like anyone else, can reincarnate if they wish to.

What if we don't want to reincarnate again?
Then you're assigned a 'job' in the Angelic realm and you do that instead. There's no sitting around on clouds and eating bon bon's for eternity in the Angelic realm.

Do suicides reincarnate?
Yes. They do a fast turn around and come back here to complete their soul contract after they've been healed.

Do you choose your earth family you incarnate into?
Yep. You choose everything...what gender you'll be, your physical appearance, all of it.

Why would we choose a life so full of hardships?
Because as human beings we learn the most when faced with adversity.

If the whole point is to learn from incarnation to incarnation then why are our memories erased when we reincarnate?
I actually said at one time to Jmmanuel "Just lay the whole big picture on me at once. Quit giving it to me piecemeal."
His response was "I can't. Your head would explode."

We only use at max 30% of our physical brains whereas in the spirit realm you use 100% of your consciousness. Our physical brains can't handle storing every incarnation we've gone through. It's like a computer running out of RAM. Our brains reach the saturation point at 30%. So our past life memories are all stored in our DNA and subconscious or superconscious. We can access them there by simply going within ourselves. That's what you tap into when you do a past life regression, for example.

Is there any fear present in the death process?
I never experienced any at all...but I suppose that hinges on what death experience you script for yourself.

I'm a psychic medium. Does this mean when we do a spirit rescue we're not actually bringing anyone to the light?
That's precisely what it means. We don't know what a soul's personal vibration level is to deliver them to the right place. We don't know what spiritual lessons they contracted to learn during their earthly life and whether or not they completed their soul contract. We don't have the power to interfere in the afterlife and we're just kidding ourselves if we think we do.

Are we in any way penalized for choosing to be cremated?
Nope. That's a free will choice.