The Next World
Many think that" the next world" is a reality that awaits us after our departure from this world. But according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the next world relates to the reality that we attain as we evolve on the spiritual path, which is also the reality we feel once the body has passed away. A person who did not fully achieve the spiritual world will have to reincarnate into this world until he or she fully attains spirituality.
Kabbalists explain that “the next world” is a special state that one attains during one’s life. In other words, every time one attains another spiritual degree, the new degree is considered" the next world, "compared to the previous degree.
“Man is the center of reality; the upper worlds, this corporeal world,
and everything within them were not created but for him”.
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam),
“Introduction to the Book of Zohar”