Karnonnos said:
I'm aware that 'praying for the dead's souls' and other concepts like buying indulgences to put someone's soul through 'purgatory' is xian nonsense.
However... is there any way to aid dead people you don't know to perhaps not have such a bad life when they reincarnate next or bind them less to xianity and so on? I'm not talking about a hardcore worthless xian here, but someone who consulted a pastor when they were in a lot of trouble and ended up dead anyway.
I have worked extensively with those who have passed away. Yes, there are ways to help them, but in order to avoid yourself a lot of fuss, you can just call in Anubis or Satan, and they will safely escort them to safety and reincarnate them.
Without the help from the Gods there aren't many things one can do, if one goes straight out the bat, one does need support from the Gods. They also most of the time on their own take care to souls that are close to us SS and have been positive or beneficial or at least not threatening in our lifetimes.
The christian religious affiliations of a person after dead are just revealed to be lies, as they cross on the other side and they see no Jeboo and in particular nothing like this. This hallucination state does happen only for a few moments after death in the form of strange imagery.
After this one is just sitting on the astral. I have went in-depth with a lot of this in my Dealing With Astral Entities series and the Reincarnation series. These were just from experience and observations, and since then, I have more information.
Working with the dead can be really tedious and sometimes a difficult task, this is why the Gods just pick them up and escort them to safety. We humans at large do not have the power or extensive abilities to work with these frequently, which is commonly referred to as the "Crossing of the Veil".
Egyptian and many other prayers specialize in calling the Gods to help the deceased and in particular giving them some protection for their departure, this is what the funeral rights are about.