To consider what happens at death one must know what constitutes a person. Consciousness, experiencing, is a totally different order of thing to the physical body. Memory seems to be ubiquitous and it is likely that each gene contains the memories of every ancestor that contained that gene in it's DNA. If the purpose of life is to evolve then having something that learns from every incarnation is only logical. But the self is put together through ordinary learning and memory in one life so this self has not reincarnated.
Just as in sleep, consciousness, experiencing, does not die, so in death, consciousness, experiencing, lives on. Also something that learns understanding might continue to exist. And the self, although physically formed, might be separate to the physical body and so continue to exist after death. Of course that is if consciousness responds to the vibrations of the self after death. Otherwise the self could still continue to produce the thoughts and emotional vibrations, but the connection to consciousness having been broken at death, then no experiencing or feeling would occur. If this connection is not broken then the self could be flooded by past trauma and great pain would ensue perhaps until the self disintegrates through time.
Then I propose that the traumatic factors that we have to deal with are:
1/ The traumatic experiences of our early life. This mostly involves foetal, birth, and babyhood experiences.
2/ The traumatic experiences bound up with each gene we have, that are our ancestor's experiences.
3/ The traumatic experiences that the reincarnating entity undergoes each lifetime.
4/ The traumatic experience of being wedded to a physical body at conception.
5/ Traumatic vibrations from the memories of the environment and people.
All of these things interfere with the ability of consciousness to produce feeling and action. In other words divine action and feeling is within us all, it is just this big pile of rubbish baggage that hinders such action and feeling.
Mo