Do people keep their sense of gender, their appearance, and the things that made them who they are?

“different life. It's not life. Uh I I do believe I was still me in terms of my best me, not not my worst me. I do think but I still think I had my same sensibilities. What I do not know is what happens beyond that threshold because I didn't get beyond the threshold. I don't know even if we still have a three-dimensionality to us. It may be that my experience had a three-dimensionality of sorts because that's what I would understand. And you knew yourself. You remember your history. It's all I you're still you. I”43:24

“The sense of who I was at that time wasn't anything like my body was there; like an astral type projection, it was more of just this awareness.”3:40

“Do you know what I mean? That kind of unchanging sense of yourself that always feels the same, doesn't it? It doesn't matter how old you get, you're like, oh, there's that same, so it was that sense of self. And I, and and and I remember thinking, well, you know, it's I'm not in the body with it. And so that was the first thought, was wow, I'm not my body.”1:29

“I had no sense of a body, no feeling of limitations or boundaries, yet I was still me and all the while aware that I was having this experience.”4:09

“I had a sense of self, I knew who I was, that I had an individual sense of self, I remember that.”33:00

“I mean, though, you didn't have a body, did you feel you were still you, or a point of reference, or?”13:15

“To this moment, it's still very difficult to think that, yes, I definitely had a sense of the self. Yes, I'm me. I'm Jack or John, as I then was. Yes, I know I'm tall, I'm slender, etc, etc. Yes, I have the sense of myself.”43:08

“Do we actually, so you know, like, does that sense of, you know, you still know who you are? Is that permanent? Internal also? So I don't know. In a way, I feel like it's probably a bit of both. I think probably there's always a sense of an individual in some way experiencing.”38:38

“Do you think you lost your personality when you got to the other side? You lost your individuality, or you were still you, were still you with everything that you acquired on this Earth, where you became somebody else?”19:57

“Now, I don't have the same body, but I was aware of being a formed thought, a unit of a collective bundle of energy that was still aware of its identity.”14:30

“My spirit body had retained my accustomed earthly form, so I still looked very much like me, and I definitely felt solid to the touch.”4:51

“I was in the center, and they were all around me. And it was their outlines I was seeing, but it was more than an outline. It was vibration. It was their energy.”10:58

“in my body. If there was one thing I had I I didn't care at all. I realized it was my body. I realized I was dead and I had no concern for my body because I realized in that moment my body was nothing more than a shell built to house my soul. But the one thing I thought about was Go ahead. Did you I mean did you still have a body? Did you feel like yourself? Yeah, I totally felt like myself. I felt like myself, but I was 30t up in the air. I felt like I could see. I had hands. I had feet. I could”11:48

“And it was, did I not have a body? My own identity was stripped from me at that point. I still had my personality, and I still had my history. But what I thought I was wasn't there. It wasn't along for the ride, but yet there I was.”44:08

“You know it, it was very clear to me a number of things. One, that whoever we are, we always are. And I learned that when I looked at the body and I realized that I'm still having the same thought patterns that I normally would have. And so I realized that this shell that's on the ground is nothing more than a shell. The real me is my spiritual form that, that I was existing in at that point in time, and that was the real person, if you will. And, and so I, I made that realization.”14:31

“Did you have any sense of your body when you were? I mean, did you feel like you were in a spirit body that looked like yours?”35:07