An Interview on the Afterlife
Quote from Kai Chan Andrew on 08/21/2026, 5:45 amIntroductory Note Please note that this is a translation of an interview with Korea's leading past-life reading expert. She has conducted over 20,000 clinical consultations with Koreans over the past 20 years, making her a figure comparable to Edgar Cayce. To the best of my knowledge, she is the most extraordinary spiritual sensitive currently living.
Park Jin-yeo Eternal Life Counselor & Past-Life Reading Expert Director of the Past-Life Research Institute Her Book Link -googlebook
Death
Q: Cases of near-death experiences are often introduced. What actually happens after death?
Park: After death, people who lived with deep religious faith pass over very smoothly. Because they believe in guardian angels, they recognize their guides quickly and can transition rapidly. Depending on their tradition, Buddhists may follow Avalokiteshvara (Gwanseum-bosal), Christians may follow guardian angels, and those rooted in agrarian ancestral cultures may follow their ancestors. Others might follow a white light; people experience various forms depending on their cultural background.
However, there are those who cannot move on. Those who lived far outside the boundary of the law—perpetrators of severe crimes—as well as those who died by suicide or lived in deep depression experience a severe drop in their vibrational frequency. When their density becomes low and they take on a lower-dimensional wave state, they simply cannot hear the guidance.
Q: How should we prepare for death?
Park: Death is a preparation process for something new. We should view it as a period of rest in preparation for a new beginning. We all want to start fresh, don't we? We live with so many regrets. Rather than viewing death as something difficult or terrifying, we should see it as a time granted to receive new opportunities for what comes next.
Q: It seems natural to grieve and cry in front of the death of a loved one. But how does that affect the deceased?
Park: People who have recently lost someone, or those whose loved ones passed away just a short while ago, often come to see me. From the perspective of the deceased, there is intense sorrow and even anger. The energy of grief, anger, and attachment left behind by the living is immensely powerful. When this happens, the spirit of the deceased becomes tied down and unable to move on. Until that sorrow is purified, they often remain stuck. They need to accept the transition quickly so they can depart.
Guardian Spirits and Possession
Q: Many people are curious about guardian spirits or guardian angels. Does everyone have one?
Park: Of course. Everyone has them, regardless of religion. Religion is simply a channel to connect more closely with your guardian angel, but everyone possesses one. Furthermore, you can think of that guardian angel as your own soul’s higher self—there is no need to view it as an entirely separate entity.
We need to deeply purify ourselves as we live in this physical body. When we are purified and impurities disappear—much like having better grounding—we naturally receive good messages and make wise choices, which inevitably improves the direction of our lives. We want so much, yet we put in so little effort. We need practices like meditation that allow us to reflect on ourselves and show consideration for others.
We cannot put rice in an ashtray, can we? We must purify ourselves thoroughly.
Q: So we could say we are in a team with such entities. What about trying to speak to them directly?
Park: Honestly, that carries some danger. If you do that, you risk spiritual possession. Right now, during periods of heavy interference, there are far too many wandering earthbound spirits around. People often think they are contacting a guardian angel, when in fact an earthbound spirit ends up possessing them.
Q: What is the phenomenon of spiritual possession?
Park: Possession happens because when our spirit or soul enters this physical body, it comes under a spiritual contract—it brings a specific spiritual blueprint. Possession occurs when incomplete, lost, and wandering entities in the environment match your spiritual vibration and interfere, causing mistakes and accidents. Possession can be defined as this phenomenon of spiritual interference.
Possession is divided into internal and external types. Internal possession can alter your emotions and personality traits. External possession involves an entity hovering nearby and intervening intermittently—such as making you slip up during important words or causing you to hallucinate while driving, leading to an accident.
Entities that cause possession are often those who had close karmic relationships with you in the same era, according to the laws of affinity and past lives. Looking into past lives reveals these karmic bonds.
Q: How can one become free from these entities?
Park: It is a complex issue. When possession is deeply rooted, it is often a case of a karmic debt collector coming to collect, making it very difficult to resolve. In most cases, it requires the help of someone with spiritual authority to explain to the entity why it must leave and persuade it to go, or forcefully exorcise and separate it. However, the most important part is the effort the individual makes afterward to prevent re-possession. You must put in continuous effort—such as praying in a church to invite positive energy, or copying the Diamond Sutra and praying to guardian deities if you are Buddhist—to ensure you do not become possessed again.
Yet, if you are currently in a possessed state, making that effort yourself is extremely hard. Your pupils might shake uncontrollably, your hands might tremble when trying to copy scriptures, or family members might provoke arguments. In most cases, it cannot be solved by individual effort alone, even though religions often offer standard instructions. You must seek help from those with deep spiritual practice or spiritual authority.
The Spirit World and the Universal Mind
Q: In the process of reincarnation, is it possible for a soul that inhabited one physical body to split into multiple bodies to gain experience, or for spirits experienced in multiple bodies to merge back into one?
Park: Indeed, we see many such cases. While you are working here in Korea, another soul extension of yours might be working on Wall Street or fighting as a freedom fighter in Africa.
It is very difficult to learn enough through just one physical body because the limited relationships you encounter offer fewer lessons. A fist is one, but it has five fingers. Thus, the soul divides to experience and learn, and these soul extensions often have similar times of death.
"Love your neighbor as yourself" ultimately means your neighbor is not separate from you—they are yourself.
Even for me, I initially just had curiosity about whether there was an unseen order in another world, asking the same general questions most people have. But through conducting individual readings, I have learned so much. I meet a teacher in every single person.
Q: Many want to know the reality of the spirit realm, the intermediate stage we pass through after finishing a life before entering the next. What is it like?
Park: We usually perceive objects through our eyes. When talking about the spirit world, some describe it like heaven, while others describe it like hell. In truth, most of those descriptions are projections of the knowledge and learning the person held during life. People materialize and understand the realm based on their own understanding and projections.
When you die, you review your lifetime experiences in a compressed form. When I conduct readings, I also view a person's spirit body in a compressed state—every event passes like a panoramic screen in a single moment and condenses. Upon reaching the spirit realm, you meet entities higher and more evolved than yourself—one dimension higher—much like our guardian angels or teaching spirits. You can think of those entities as your true self. Together with them, you design your next life, reshaping what you were unable to plan before entering the spirit world.
Q: What is the core principle when designing the next life?
Park: The most important thing is reviewing how you lived your previous life. You focus on the missing parts—where you hurt others, where you failed to perform the good you intended, or where you failed to understand the Creator's cosmic order—and aim to properly understand that Universal Mind.
Q: What is the Universal Mind?
Park: It cannot be defined by concepts. It arose within a shifting field of wave energy; it is quiet, yet completely full. Within human understanding, we might call it love.
Q: What is love?
Park: Giving like the sun. It can be defined as purely giving. The soul also receives scores, but earning those points is difficult. It is essential to accumulate merit and perform good deeds without expecting anything in return.
Q: In Buddhism, there is the concept of Muju-sang-bosi (giving without attachment to the act), and Jesus said not to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, right?
Park: Yes. You must help and then completely forget about it. Still, performing the action itself to build that habit is an important first step.
Soulmates and Conjugal Ties
Q: Many dream of a fateful love and wonder about the meaning of a soulmate or spiritual partner. Does everyone have a soulmate?
Park: Everyone has a soulmate. However, some meet them in life, while others do not. Ironically, even though two people are soulmates, they might not get along and instead fulfill separate roles. They might meet as friends or as family members. In many cases, it is not a romantic relationship.
Soulmates are widely known only in a positive light, but they can also play extreme opposite roles—such as betraying each other or parting ways in painful ways—acting like positive (+) and negative (-) charges to help each other’s souls grow.
You might also meet your soulmate very late in life. After fulfilling your duties to your spouse and children in a given lifetime and resolving responsibilities toward other karmic bonds, you may meet them in the latter half of your life.
Q: In your book, you mentioned that if you intensely long for someone, you will meet them in a future life...
Park: There was a case like this: during the Imjin War, there was a couple who loved each other deeply, but the husband went to war and died. Both held immense regret and longing. The remaining wife lived thinking only of her husband, and the husband felt deep compassion for his wife. When they met again in this current life, however, there was constant conflict between them. In reality, they had lessons they needed to experience in that past life, and their core dispositions were actually quite misaligned. Reconnecting happened because they had much to learn from each other. While longing intensely will bring a reunion, the outcome may not unfold as smoothly as you had hoped.
Q: How should we strive when we meet karmic connections again?
Park: Regret and lingering pain mean you will inevitably meet again. When you do, resolve not to leave behind such sorrow and pain. You should strive to say, "Let us become spiritual companions for each other this time and elevate one another." If you hold that mindset, the relationship will evolve accordingly.
Q: Is it true that the karmic bond between a married couple must be exceptionally deep?
Park: Yes. There must be an extraordinarily deep karmic bond. You have to walk together through an entire lifetime, so the karmic connection is inherently profound.
Q: What about someone who says, "I never wanted a spouse like the one I have now"?
Park: The very fact that they feel they "did not want this" is their assigned homework. It indicates a premise that they must continually improve the relationship, realize something from it, and learn from this connection. Though they may claim they did not choose it, it was brought about through agreement between their souls and their spiritual families. Recognizing this makes accepting their current situation much easier.
Introductory Note Please note that this is a translation of an interview with Korea's leading past-life reading expert. She has conducted over 20,000 clinical consultations with Koreans over the past 20 years, making her a figure comparable to Edgar Cayce. To the best of my knowledge, she is the most extraordinary spiritual sensitive currently living.
Park Jin-yeo Eternal Life Counselor & Past-Life Reading Expert Director of the Past-Life Research Institute Her Book Link -googlebook
Death
Q: Cases of near-death experiences are often introduced. What actually happens after death?
Park: After death, people who lived with deep religious faith pass over very smoothly. Because they believe in guardian angels, they recognize their guides quickly and can transition rapidly. Depending on their tradition, Buddhists may follow Avalokiteshvara (Gwanseum-bosal), Christians may follow guardian angels, and those rooted in agrarian ancestral cultures may follow their ancestors. Others might follow a white light; people experience various forms depending on their cultural background.
However, there are those who cannot move on. Those who lived far outside the boundary of the law—perpetrators of severe crimes—as well as those who died by suicide or lived in deep depression experience a severe drop in their vibrational frequency. When their density becomes low and they take on a lower-dimensional wave state, they simply cannot hear the guidance.
Q: How should we prepare for death?
Park: Death is a preparation process for something new. We should view it as a period of rest in preparation for a new beginning. We all want to start fresh, don't we? We live with so many regrets. Rather than viewing death as something difficult or terrifying, we should see it as a time granted to receive new opportunities for what comes next.
Q: It seems natural to grieve and cry in front of the death of a loved one. But how does that affect the deceased?
Park: People who have recently lost someone, or those whose loved ones passed away just a short while ago, often come to see me. From the perspective of the deceased, there is intense sorrow and even anger. The energy of grief, anger, and attachment left behind by the living is immensely powerful. When this happens, the spirit of the deceased becomes tied down and unable to move on. Until that sorrow is purified, they often remain stuck. They need to accept the transition quickly so they can depart.
Guardian Spirits and Possession
Q: Many people are curious about guardian spirits or guardian angels. Does everyone have one?
Park: Of course. Everyone has them, regardless of religion. Religion is simply a channel to connect more closely with your guardian angel, but everyone possesses one. Furthermore, you can think of that guardian angel as your own soul’s higher self—there is no need to view it as an entirely separate entity.
We need to deeply purify ourselves as we live in this physical body. When we are purified and impurities disappear—much like having better grounding—we naturally receive good messages and make wise choices, which inevitably improves the direction of our lives. We want so much, yet we put in so little effort. We need practices like meditation that allow us to reflect on ourselves and show consideration for others.
We cannot put rice in an ashtray, can we? We must purify ourselves thoroughly.
Q: So we could say we are in a team with such entities. What about trying to speak to them directly?
Park: Honestly, that carries some danger. If you do that, you risk spiritual possession. Right now, during periods of heavy interference, there are far too many wandering earthbound spirits around. People often think they are contacting a guardian angel, when in fact an earthbound spirit ends up possessing them.
Q: What is the phenomenon of spiritual possession?
Park: Possession happens because when our spirit or soul enters this physical body, it comes under a spiritual contract—it brings a specific spiritual blueprint. Possession occurs when incomplete, lost, and wandering entities in the environment match your spiritual vibration and interfere, causing mistakes and accidents. Possession can be defined as this phenomenon of spiritual interference.
Possession is divided into internal and external types. Internal possession can alter your emotions and personality traits. External possession involves an entity hovering nearby and intervening intermittently—such as making you slip up during important words or causing you to hallucinate while driving, leading to an accident.
Entities that cause possession are often those who had close karmic relationships with you in the same era, according to the laws of affinity and past lives. Looking into past lives reveals these karmic bonds.
Q: How can one become free from these entities?
Park: It is a complex issue. When possession is deeply rooted, it is often a case of a karmic debt collector coming to collect, making it very difficult to resolve. In most cases, it requires the help of someone with spiritual authority to explain to the entity why it must leave and persuade it to go, or forcefully exorcise and separate it. However, the most important part is the effort the individual makes afterward to prevent re-possession. You must put in continuous effort—such as praying in a church to invite positive energy, or copying the Diamond Sutra and praying to guardian deities if you are Buddhist—to ensure you do not become possessed again.
Yet, if you are currently in a possessed state, making that effort yourself is extremely hard. Your pupils might shake uncontrollably, your hands might tremble when trying to copy scriptures, or family members might provoke arguments. In most cases, it cannot be solved by individual effort alone, even though religions often offer standard instructions. You must seek help from those with deep spiritual practice or spiritual authority.
The Spirit World and the Universal Mind
Q: In the process of reincarnation, is it possible for a soul that inhabited one physical body to split into multiple bodies to gain experience, or for spirits experienced in multiple bodies to merge back into one?
Park: Indeed, we see many such cases. While you are working here in Korea, another soul extension of yours might be working on Wall Street or fighting as a freedom fighter in Africa.
It is very difficult to learn enough through just one physical body because the limited relationships you encounter offer fewer lessons. A fist is one, but it has five fingers. Thus, the soul divides to experience and learn, and these soul extensions often have similar times of death.
"Love your neighbor as yourself" ultimately means your neighbor is not separate from you—they are yourself.
Even for me, I initially just had curiosity about whether there was an unseen order in another world, asking the same general questions most people have. But through conducting individual readings, I have learned so much. I meet a teacher in every single person.
Q: Many want to know the reality of the spirit realm, the intermediate stage we pass through after finishing a life before entering the next. What is it like?
Park: We usually perceive objects through our eyes. When talking about the spirit world, some describe it like heaven, while others describe it like hell. In truth, most of those descriptions are projections of the knowledge and learning the person held during life. People materialize and understand the realm based on their own understanding and projections.
When you die, you review your lifetime experiences in a compressed form. When I conduct readings, I also view a person's spirit body in a compressed state—every event passes like a panoramic screen in a single moment and condenses. Upon reaching the spirit realm, you meet entities higher and more evolved than yourself—one dimension higher—much like our guardian angels or teaching spirits. You can think of those entities as your true self. Together with them, you design your next life, reshaping what you were unable to plan before entering the spirit world.
Q: What is the core principle when designing the next life?
Park: The most important thing is reviewing how you lived your previous life. You focus on the missing parts—where you hurt others, where you failed to perform the good you intended, or where you failed to understand the Creator's cosmic order—and aim to properly understand that Universal Mind.
Q: What is the Universal Mind?
Park: It cannot be defined by concepts. It arose within a shifting field of wave energy; it is quiet, yet completely full. Within human understanding, we might call it love.
Q: What is love?
Park: Giving like the sun. It can be defined as purely giving. The soul also receives scores, but earning those points is difficult. It is essential to accumulate merit and perform good deeds without expecting anything in return.
Q: In Buddhism, there is the concept of Muju-sang-bosi (giving without attachment to the act), and Jesus said not to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, right?
Park: Yes. You must help and then completely forget about it. Still, performing the action itself to build that habit is an important first step.
Soulmates and Conjugal Ties
Q: Many dream of a fateful love and wonder about the meaning of a soulmate or spiritual partner. Does everyone have a soulmate?
Park: Everyone has a soulmate. However, some meet them in life, while others do not. Ironically, even though two people are soulmates, they might not get along and instead fulfill separate roles. They might meet as friends or as family members. In many cases, it is not a romantic relationship.
Soulmates are widely known only in a positive light, but they can also play extreme opposite roles—such as betraying each other or parting ways in painful ways—acting like positive (+) and negative (-) charges to help each other’s souls grow.
You might also meet your soulmate very late in life. After fulfilling your duties to your spouse and children in a given lifetime and resolving responsibilities toward other karmic bonds, you may meet them in the latter half of your life.
Q: In your book, you mentioned that if you intensely long for someone, you will meet them in a future life...
Park: There was a case like this: during the Imjin War, there was a couple who loved each other deeply, but the husband went to war and died. Both held immense regret and longing. The remaining wife lived thinking only of her husband, and the husband felt deep compassion for his wife. When they met again in this current life, however, there was constant conflict between them. In reality, they had lessons they needed to experience in that past life, and their core dispositions were actually quite misaligned. Reconnecting happened because they had much to learn from each other. While longing intensely will bring a reunion, the outcome may not unfold as smoothly as you had hoped.
Q: How should we strive when we meet karmic connections again?
Park: Regret and lingering pain mean you will inevitably meet again. When you do, resolve not to leave behind such sorrow and pain. You should strive to say, "Let us become spiritual companions for each other this time and elevate one another." If you hold that mindset, the relationship will evolve accordingly.
Q: Is it true that the karmic bond between a married couple must be exceptionally deep?
Park: Yes. There must be an extraordinarily deep karmic bond. You have to walk together through an entire lifetime, so the karmic connection is inherently profound.
Q: What about someone who says, "I never wanted a spouse like the one I have now"?
Park: The very fact that they feel they "did not want this" is their assigned homework. It indicates a premise that they must continually improve the relationship, realize something from it, and learn from this connection. Though they may claim they did not choose it, it was brought about through agreement between their souls and their spiritual families. Recognizing this makes accepting their current situation much easier.