It is my belief that man has free will in this life in regards to choices between acts of good and evil. We may be just or unjust, kind or unkind etc, depending on the enactment of free will. We have no free will in regards to old age and death etc.
The next life, the spiritual dimension of our existence is beyond the description of words. The journey of the soul is one of endless growth and infinite possibilities. One departs this life in a state of readiness subject to ones own efforts both in spiritual and general education. After death, when our souls have ceased to associate with our physical bodies, we will experience emotions appropriate to the progress we have made in our spiritual development. Those who have lived materialistic, self-centred lives will be subjected to emotions of lost opportunity they have inflicted upon themselves.
'You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.' Buddha.
It can be argued that evil is non-existent to the extent that goodness is light and evil is darkness and darkness is the absence of light. The absence of goodness can be seen as degrees of nothingness. Now obviously evil exists but I'm constructing a basis by which I might explain why free will does not exist in the next kingdom.
So if evil is an absence of something it does not enter the next kingdom with the soul. As such the next kingdom is not one of relative states. There is no good vs evil etc. You depart without evil, replete with your personality and spiritual education to continue the journey of your one time, unique soul. As this kingdom is without relative states there is no choice, the soul does not exercise free will but rather progresses towards the Source of Creation.
Nobody can describe the next world. It has been likened to stepping through a veil into an extension of this world, though not subject to spacial constraints or time. You will meet those you have loved. It will not be a place of contemplation only as progress requires education. Now of course none of this can be equated how we function in our physical existence.
Every second counts. One needs to be as prepared as ones capacity allows so that in passing there will be no regrets.
