Where Do We Go After We Die?

Tantra Bensko left some interesting comments on many of my articles and has raised a whole new set of interesting questions. However I saw the need to write this article as a preamble to addressing some of those questions and points raised.

I think I also need to point out at the outset of this article the strong influence that my deceased mother (read a little about this here) had on the unfolding of my psychic abilities. My mother taught me to avoid 'spiritual teachers' as if they were the plague and to stay away from books and practices that could pollute my sensory perceptions.
Interesting advice for an avid reader and student but nonetheless this edict became my guiding practice. Instead of reading 'spiritual books' I instead read and studied science books.
I became an eclectic - and I still am.
I like to discover everything spiritual completely by myself via my own direct experiences and avidly avoid being 'taught' anything spiritual.
Only after I have discovered something by myself do I go investigating, researching and reading up to see how what someone else has to say and to see how it matches or challenges my own understandings.
There are still some experiences I have had that I have not been able to find mentioned or referred to elsewhere - so if anyone reading can relate to or make sense of a couple of things I am going to be mentioning in this article please do let me know.

My mother died in 1982. A couple of days afterwards I was having a kip on a bed at the home of one of my brothers.
I called out to my mother, asking her, "where have you gone"?
I then followed her along a tunnel to arrive at a very bright light. Upon intersecting that light to progress further I noted that 5 separate types of entities kinda dropped away as if there were all discrete fragments of human existence.

One of these fragments was the physical body. Another was like our 'spirit'; the entity that has the capacity to linger; make visitations and talk and interact with the still living and also the dead and to continue its unique experience on into eternity. This fragment is also 'experience specific' and resides in places familiar, i.e. where that spirit lived and existed on the physical plane though now existing on the astral.
Another fragment was what I refer to as the 'soul'. This looks like a smallish sphere that is far brighter than anything of this earth that spins in every possible direction simultaneously. Upon this imprinted (encoded) sphere are 'all the lessons' we have learned on our journeys. Also encoded are any lessons still remaining. Some of these seem to be allocated to future incarnations.
I have seen several of these balls.
I have seen these enter my aura at the point of conception. I also saw one go down the corridor of my home and into my sister's bedroom where she conceived that evening. Though that particular one puzzled me; it looked a bit like a yin-yang symbol (except it was all light with no black) and I wondered if it was broken. It turned out that I had witnessed the conception of twins.

Another fragment was completely ineffable. And the fifth one was gone before I could even conceive more of its nature.
I suspect that I may learn more by reading The Tibetan Book of The Dead but so far I have not read this tome. I imagine that no quantum physicists may be reading this article; which is unfortunate cos some theory of physics might be able to parallel the perception of my experiences in some way.

Feedback welcomed. And keep posted.