Written by Shelly Moore ©️ 2025

🕊️ I. Why I’m Writing This.

My dad died in April. We celebrated his life two days ago. This is fresh. Fresh fresh.

This isn’t a Hallmark sermon or an attempt to convert you to my worldview. Far from.

It’s my honest effort to explain — to myself, mostly, maybe — why I don’t believe death is an off-switch.

It’s more… a transformation.

And how modern science actually supports this idea far, far more than most people realize.

So, if you’re open… pull up a chair and hear me out.

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🧬 II. What Physics Actually Says About Us.

Let’s start with something concrete:

⚡️ Your body is an organized system of energy. Neurons fire with tiny electrical currents. Chemical reactions spark and dissipate. Your brain’s “you-ness” is an intricate pattern of electrical and biochemical activity — not just an immortal marble rolling around behind your eyes.

Basic physics says energy can’t be destroyed — it can only change form or spread out (the Law of Conservation of Energy).

💔 When your heart stops, the organized pattern collapses, but the raw energy doesn’t blink out of existence — it disperses back into its surroundings as heat, chemical byproducts, and electrical residues.

In fact, physics calls this entropy — the tendency for structured energy to break apart and become more evenly distributed in the universe.

So technically speaking, when we die, our organized life-force unravels and reintegrates with everything else.

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👼 III. Where Does the “Soul” Go?

Of course, people ask: “Okay, but does the actual personality survive?”

That’s where it gets more philosophical — but not entirely unscientific.

🫆 Neuroscience shows your thoughts, habits, and preferences are physical patterns. They leave imprints on your body and environment — the words you wrote, the music you loved, the people you shaped. So when you die, your “self” doesn’t vanish cleanly. It survives as a ripple in the physical world:

🔊 The literal sound waves in music you made or loved.

👨🏼‍🦳 The stories and emotional conditioning you instilled in family.

🏡 The micro-ecosystem you shaped with your biology and choices.

No mysticism required: your life is a pattern embedded in physical matter and memories. Death just redistributes it.

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🎼 IV. How This Makes Grief Feel Less Hopeless.

This is why I believe “signs” are more than wishful thinking.

When I suddenly hear my dad’s favorite Pink Floyd song on a hard day — I don’t think he’s a spirit on a cloud pushing “play” on some sort of universal Walkman. (Eesh. Aged myself there.) I think the energy of who he was still vibrates in this world.

🧠 My brain, not only shaped by him, but programmed with the same genetic programming as his, notices.

That’s physics + psychology, not fantasy.

In evolutionary psychology, humans are pattern detectors. We’re wired to pick up familiar sensory cues that link us to people we loved.

So a song, a smell — they’re not magic tricks; they’re echoes of a real energy signature that never fully disappeared.

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🍃 V. It’s Not Just Comfort — It’s Consistent with Nature.

Look at nature:

🌲 Trees drop leaves that decompose and enrich the soil.

⭐️ A dead star explodes and seeds new solar systems.

🐚 Your cells die constantly and get replaced with recycled atoms that once belonged to stars, ancient oceans, or other living things.

Death isn’t the end. It can’t be. I’m not saying this in a romantic/hopeful way — it’s pretty darn well backed up.

♻️ It’s the ultimate recycling program. Biology, chemistry, and astrophysics all say so.

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🚬 VI. So Where Did My Dad Go?

He’s likely not floating in a cloudy sky-lounge smoking his favorite brand cigarettes and singing loudly along to Brooks & Dunn — but he’s also not gone. He didn’t poof! Cease to exist the moment his body died.

He’s likely become the heat that warmed the hospice room.

He’s molecules that will become something else.

He’s genetics and patterns in the brains of everyone who knew him – not just in a nostalgic sense, but in a thread-that-connects-everything-in-existence way. Quantum Entanglement, maybe? 🤔

He’s literally half of my laugh and most of my stubbornness.

And he’s a part of the actual sound waves creating his favorite songs.

… and maybe just maybe he absolutely had a part in playing that song we both loved for me this week in the exact moment I needed to hear from him most. Because he never left. He just found a new container.

Physics calls that entropy and conservation of mass-energy.

I call it — Dad’s still here, just scattered beautifully where he’s needed and where his energy aligned most.

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📚 VII. Why This Matters.

This theory doesn’t insult faith. It expands it.

👼 If you want heaven too, have it. Please. I’m not here to upset anyone, simply… reframe it a bit. It’s very likely there’s an energetic layer/dimension that’s been created purely because of the massive amount of collective belief and intention over the centuries — where people who believe (resonate with) it in life, will likely find it in so-called death (a substantial portion of their energy would find its way there).

😈 Same goes for a “hell.” For the same reasons.

✝️ 📖 Also worth noting, the Bible even quotes Jesus saying the kingdom of god isn’t something you’re going to see with your eyes — because it’s within you. He was probably telling us he’d figured it out.

♻️ If you believe in reincarnation, keep that too. I do. I think my theory actually provides proof of it – just viewed from a different angle.

🔮 Psychics/Mediums? Generally explained as “people who are able to tune into frequencies others are not.” Therefore, it stands to reason they might simply be tapping into the energies which continue to exist in and all around us – not unlike scanning the radio frequencies to find the music genre you want. Past, present, and future – all contained within energy bits scattered and recycled, indefinitely – all around us and in us. Accessible to those who know how and where to look.

👻 Ghosts? Simply scattered/fractured energy. The part of great-grandad that was angry, fractured at the moment of body death – or possibly even while living – and took residence in the home he’d built with his own two hands. Or the sad bits of great aunt Jane became too much for her to bear and fractured/broke off its source and returned to the garden she tended daily. Insert whatever ghost story you choose here and see how it works. Interesting, right?

💡 (*I’ll take you one step further and explain residual versus intelligent hauntings.

“Residual hauntings” would be the fractured energy replaying on a perpetual loop; “intelligent hauntings” would be fractured energy substantial enough to continue to exist along side us with awareness.)

🍎 Our Thoughts? Energy bits passing through our field. Some people seem to be more sensitive to collective energy than others. This is why things like two people in two different countries coming up with the same revolutionary idea happen.

➡️ Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both inventing calculus at the same time.

➡️ Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin forming the theory of evolution at the same time. The list goes on.

☀️ The sun (and stars)? Massive balls of energy traveling (remember — the sun is not stationary; it’s traveling roughly 448k mph through “space” and the rest of the us are tailing it), while crumbling/breaking apart/fracturing/scattering it’s energy into the universe.

🔬 Science and “spirit” do agree on one thing:

Nothing precious truly disappears. Ever.

It can’t.

It just stops fitting the old container and moves on to the next.

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💕 VIII. If You’re Grieving Too…

You don’t have to force yourself to “move on.” Nor do you have to adopt dogma. Try moving with the scattered bits instead. They’re all around you. Everywhere and everything… and if that’s not top-notch, awe-inspiring cosmic beauty in action, I don’t know what is. 💫

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… This is for you, dad. If you’re out there.