I’ve heard that by being buried the energy in your body stays and disperses into the soil as your body decays, and with cremation most of the energy eventually drifts off into space, but does this have any effect on the person’s soul? In some ancient cultures it was believed that the physical body after death still effects the soul of that person.
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I dont think it matters, both still leave residual energy of the one that died, the body being present from not present doesn’t stop the residual energy from being. It’ll always happen. Now, where the mass of the residual energy is may matter, where they died and where they buried will have varying degrees of residual energy, as opposed to where you’re cremated and where the ashes are.
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Shouldn’t make any difference whatsoever.
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With some of the myths and legends that are out there, I can’t help but wonder if it does. Sort of to the effect of dispersing ashes over a running body of water. As a living being that walks over a large river on a regular basis I can feel the impact certain places have on my energy, along with standing near things like massive bonfires. I believe that it can make a difference, but what that is, is nearly impossible to say considering few have been able to articulate from beyond the grave. Who’s to say that no matter how you die your energy will disperse in a predictable manner? As for the soul itself, some speculate that the manner in which the body is preserved in life and death sets the soul on a particular path into the afterlife.
Just my thoughts on the matter. 
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It all depends on intent but generally I have heard its better for the soul to be cremated. Fire acting on the body once dead liberates the essence of the deceased and allows it without further delay to fulfill its destiny as a soul. Otherwise the attachment to the personality in the grave will linger for a while based on what I’ve observed in the astral but there are practices as well for non-dissolution.
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So, burial makes the soul linger around longer?
Not necessarily but its a tie to the physical due to the personality lingering until it dissolves
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Again only based on what I’ve seen (subjectively) and based on traditional understanding regarding the cremation part (which influence the way I perceive)
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Hiya OP! There is a concrete difference in regards to the effect of cremation versus burial; burial gradually links the person to their land/family in such a way that their shells become footholds for ancestors, whereas cremation skips the acclimation process and gives the spirit more freedom to design its existence and less connection to what and where it previously was. The ashes continue to be a link to what that consciousness then becomes!
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