The Inward and External Journey in Regards to Death

Today I was thinking about the internal and external journey in relation to death and pain. Is pain and internal or external journey? Pain cannot be seen and therefore would relate itself to an internal journey. However, pain can be experiences through the external. You can cut yourself. That is an external process but the feeling of pain is an internal journey. Death is similar. The process of dying is external. You can observe your body breaking down, but the process of preparing oneself mentally for death is an internal journey. Accepting one's death is difficult but it takes place internally. To a religious person death means something more then just the loss of life or the breakdown of matter, it is the time in which someone enters the life after death. Is that process external or internal? I would argue that it is neither. The journey of the soul to heaven cannot be defined to the internal or external journey. It is something else all together. Figure out what this is though is difficult. It could be a type of inward journey, but it is not the typical or normal one. The inward journey of the soul to afterlife (whatever that may be to you) exists outside of one's conscious. Does that mean that it is not an inward journey? Do we have to be conscious of the inward journey to have one? The soul is also exists outside of us to an extent. It is not in our thoughts or our bodies. I would argue that the journey of the soul is a type of inward journey, but it is one that is not able to be experienced.

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