If I am capacity for the world and this human self, does that mean that when this human self dies, this awake space is still there, perhaps filled with something else?
The short answer is, I don’t know.
It’s true that to me, I am awake capacity for all my experiences – this human self, the wider world, change, birth and death, and so on. It’s all happening within and as what I am.
But from that doesn’t follow that this awake space will still be here after this human self dies. I cannot say. Maybe it will go away. (The capacity will still be here, but maybe the awakeness will be gone with the human self.) Maybe this awake capacity will continue, filled with different experiences. (Experiencing a life between lives etc.) I don’t know.
I personally have images that seem to be from before this human life, and I have images that seem to be from particular past lives. They feel like memories, but I don’t know if that’s what they are. People and traditions may talk about reincarnation or heaven, but I cannot know if that’s true or not. There is research into reincarnation, and they seem to find data that fits the idea of reincarnation, but I cannot know that for certain either.
And that’s a very good place to be. It’s freeing. It’s honest.
All that matter is that right now, I find myself as capacity for it all – this human self, the wider world, these ideas, and anything else happening.