Yes. Your only punishment will be the knowledge of what you’re missing out on, which presumably you won’t want anyhow, as everyone gets a fair chance to accept or reject it (either here or afterwards–we don’t give up easily and are all for second chances).
To quote my husband, “I’m going to take a firm stand on my lack of certainty.” It’s not one of those things that we really know very much about. There has been talk about it, and it has been taught. If so, it was not during the existence of this universe (at least, so I’m inclined to think), but long before. On the whole, yes, we think so–but it wouldn’t shatter our world to find that someone got a little carried away with the speculation, either. However, this is another area where we know so very little that it’s too easy to get into speculation and get all weird.