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For Shinto Adherents this is the easiest question to answer without any theological scruples or juxtapositions. We watched a Catholic Priest tackle this matter as well. From Kami No Michi perspective it is extremely easy to give a direct answer on the spirits of your cat or your dog and all beings including human beings, however, we do not believe in a separate heaven or spirit realm from the nature world. We do not envision a separate spiritual paradise nor hades but all the spirits live at once in the same underlying reality. Spirits can be benevolent or malevolent circumstantially. No permanent angels nor demons. You are nice sometimes but you can be very pissed off as well. Gentle and even violent. As pure spirit kami you yourself as will still retain the ability to be benevolent and wrathful. The ability to sense and experience and to feel will persist after the decay of the body.