We balance two planes of being.
An outer world, in which we are helplessly carried down a stream and told, “Now is winter, soon will come spring, then summer, then autumn, then winter again. The unborn will live, the living will wither and die; a world will continue as it must be.”
And an inner world, of which we are master; in which we choose that life will be life, and death will have meaning, and the world we enter and leave behind will be filled with purpose.
The outer world is but a stage. The inner world is its soul for which it was brought into being.
That is the reality, and what is being explained takes a truly Jewish flavor. Surely, we have two realms the corporeal and the soul. the latter survives the body, and we continue to exist in a different form hopefully with the wisdom acquired while alive. Hashem is now while we are alive with us, and when we die also but in a different form of communication. Hey ! since nobody has returned from the death it might be useful to accept Rabbi Freeman's explanations, and not think that we know better than he does. He is not arguing with us but teaching! The point of these doses is to make us better Jews. ,and for those who are not Jews here understand better what Jews are.