If it be asked why this purificatory experience after death does not alter the character that reappears in the next birth, the answer is that it is a half-introverted, dreamy state which only vaguely and superficially touches the consciousness. Only here in the awakened, fully extroverted state of earth-world does experience etch itself in sharp, vivid lines on the ego.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 1: Death, Dying, and Immortality > # 74