Death - and then what? This gloomy question was probably asked by everyone. And yet, from this pain of farewell to the dead, from this nameless suffering, which many people experience every day, it could be taken away from its burning sting, if our children began to explain at school that we are talking only about temporary separation. that death is a change in the external form of existence. The image of a terrible bony death, a skeleton with an hourglass and a scythe is the same myth as a stork that brings children. Baron Duprel was right when he wrote: "Only our ignorance makes us think that death is terrible."
From the point of view of natural sciences, the general fear of death, the fear of dying, is absolutely unfounded, if we talk about the process itself. Only the circumstances accompanying this process can be terrible - which were caused by other people or occurred through their own fault - like murder, serious bodily injury or a long, painful illness.
“Live and rejoice while the lamp is glowing,” says a German folk song. The icon is an "aura". And we know that both our physical and our fluid bodies have their own radiation. According to him (those with paranormal abilities) can determine the estimated time of impending death:
“If the end of a person is close, then by the glow of his physical, as well as by the glow of the spiritual (fluid, etheric, astral) body, one can see when approximately it should be expected. The weaker the light of the physical body, the stronger the light of the spiritual body. This ratio increases until the time when the life of the flesh ends and the luminous spiritual body leaves the bodily shell."
The same communicator emphasizes that the power of the luminescence of the astral body corresponds to the inner state of its bearer: “For evil people who have brought a lot of suffering to others, only a tiny point shines. That is, I mean that such people have very little body luminescence."
With old age, a weakening of the radiation of the physical body and an increase in the aura of the spiritual body are also noted, which allows us to draw a conclusion about impending death.
“When I closed my eyes,” recalled one woman who left her physical body, “I immediately saw that life was going on. I could clearly see my body, which lay motionless on the bed. I also heard the helplessly crying A. (her husband) say to the people standing next to him: "Is this the end?" After all, he did not stop believing that I could recover. I saw the room with all the furnishings, clearly saw everything that was so familiar to me."
There are many such descriptions.
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“But the next moment it all disappeared, and I found myself in a completely different place. A bright light flashed over me, and I saw a human figure in luminous robes, who looked at me affably. This was my Guardian Angel, the existence of which, of course, I did not even suspect, because I had never shown interest in such things. He told me that now I am in another world, and I immediately understood it …"
In this case, the woman, having died, passed into another world in full consciousness, although she knew almost nothing about life after death. Knowledgeable people find themselves in another world, as a rule, in full consciousness, except for those cases when, due to nervous exhaustion caused by unbearable physical pain, a person is seized by a blessed sleep. In all other cases, usually the so-called adaptive sleep occurs (the term of Professor Dr. V. Khinz). Then the transition does not seem so abrupt and immediate to the dying person.
Likewise, “a butterfly does not immediately turn out of a caterpillar after its death. The birth of a butterfly is preceded by a long period of intermediate state - the pupal stage,”notes Dr. Justinus Kerner in his book“The Clairvoyant of Prevorst”. And in B. Fors-boom's work “The Book of Emanuel”, Emanuel himself explains: “The higher the spirit, the shorter the time of its mortal sleep or rest; after all, the level of development of the spirit (person) determines, among other things, his strength”.
“Every person,” writes Emanuel, “immediately after death enters this state of rest: a highly developed personality - only for a moment, then to become free from all material fetters; people less developed spiritually often wake up, come out of this state, see their own funerals, their loved ones, feel good in the spaces given to them, lead a life full of dreams and similar to a human, and often fall asleep again”.
Those who have passed into another world constantly say that their world is not some kind of phantasmagoria, that their state is in no way explained by a deception of the senses; what surrounds them there is perceived by them as real as our physical world is perceived by us.
"Our life is a real, human life, not an abstract existence in some magical states, but a human life with all its joys, known to every normal person, without any painful suffering and troubles that earthly life is so abundant with."
The words "with all its joys, known to every normal person" should not be taken too literally: not everything that during earthly existence is perceived as joy and pleasure continues there, in the spiritual world. On the contrary, the inability to receive so-called sense gratification is very difficult for the inhabitants there.
“Now I no longer have the opportunity to enjoy material things,” complains one of them, “and although this desire has not yet completely died out, it is no longer possible to satisfy it… This is a rather painful state, the entire horror of which I cannot even approximately describe. The fact that I live this way now is not God's punishment, but a consequence of the peculiarities of my character and way of life."
If this is so (and numerous similar messages - the evidence does not leave any doubt about it), then before subjecting any messages from the other world to verification, it is necessary to ask the question: where do these messages come from? Where do they come from? After all, the simplified division of the other world into heaven and hell, to which the Catholics also add purgatory, seems to those who are familiar with the achievements of modern research of the other world, very primitive.
So, the first question must be formulated as follows: where is the other world? And the second: how does it work?
“As for where the other world is,” wrote Dupril, “first it is necessary to prove that with death there is a movement in space. And until proof of the contrary is obtained, it must be assumed that we (after the death of the physical body) remain in the same world, although - except for the fact that neither he nor we perceive it sensually. For those who surrounded us in earthly life, we visually disappear from this world, and our relationship with them ceases.
The naive mind interpreted this as a movement in space, while this, first of all, should be considered as a disappearance from the sphere of perception that has become alien to us, since the proof ends there. But we must admit that with the death of the body, our attitude to this world changes to such an extent that it is identical to moving into a completely different world."
And further: “During the transition to the other world, one can, so to speak,“become attached”only to the state in which we ended our earthly existence. This is the seed from which - and quite legitimately - grows the idea of some kind of intermediate world or, rather, an intermediate state. Just as we cannot, upon dying, immediately leave our earthly state, we are also unable to immediately get used to the other world.
There are people who already in this world arrange life with an eye to another world, so, perhaps, there are otherworldly beings yearning for this world, from which they, having died, have not yet completely departed, and for this there may be a variety of motives; after all, it is possible to assume the presence of longing for earthly existence as such, perhaps, only in such a creature that here, in this world, lived an exclusively sensual life and never strived for ideal values.
Further, Duprel says that, although for a person who believes in the existence of a spirit (that is, convinced of personal immortality), the messages of the inhabitants of the other world will have only a conditional meaning, he will still pay close attention to their behavior. “In the afterlife, we will be able to feel on ourselves only those influences, the basis for the perception of which we have laid here, on the earthly plane. Conservation of strength also concerns the moral world. This is where the foundation for the Buddhist concept of karma should be sought.
The second question about what kind of other world it is is closely related to the next question about where do these messages come from? Lack of capacity for criticism as a result of lack of knowledge in this area leads to such delusions as vulgar spiritualism. Basically, I would say, 90%, all messages from the other world clearly come from people who have gone there, who, apart from the bare fact of their exit from the corporeal shell, know nothing or know only a little more than they knew before.
We can only draw the following from such messages or phenomena: the current (new) state of these deceased gives us reason to conclude that their behavior during their life on Earth was wrong, full of errors that could have been avoided. That is, such messages can serve us as a kind of personal warning. And the fact that, on the other hand, only a small part of information about the other world comes from higher, lighter spheres, is, of course, explained not by a weak interest in the earthly world of those who have gone to another world before us, but by greatly changed conditions that are necessary for such communication.
If we now pose the question of what the other world is like, then we will have to admit that the already mentioned division into two or even three parts (heaven, hell, purgatory) does not correspond to the facts. It is obvious that the Subtle World, invisible to us, is divided into many different “states of being”, which, in turn, manifest themselves in the corresponding spheres or “worlds”. And, probably, the higher spheres remain invisible to the inhabitants of the lower spheres.
Dr. Rudolph Schwartz is convinced that most of the messages from the other world and descriptions of such messages (mainly from English literature) he studied come from the sphere closest to Earth. "Most of the data coming from spirits: otherworldly spheres, shaped like spherical shells, surround the Earth and revolve with it." We find this kind of statement in Adelma von Wei: she reports on spherical layers, which, as if the colors of a rainbow flowing one into another, surround our physical world.
As the “outer order of inner life,” the spheres are subdivided into different areas. Often they talk about 7 spheres associated with our globe. The seventh sphere is sometimes called the "Sphere of Christ."
The Vedas and the ancient Persians already knew that the other world consists of 7 spheres. But according to their ideas, these spheres were on top of the so-called "lower world", the seventh area of which was considered a stage of human existence. We also find the sevenfold division among the Rosicrucians, Theosophists, Anthroposophists, and in other areas of spiritual research - sometimes in a slightly modified form. It seems that we are dealing with a glimpse of some very ancient knowledge. Only the ignorant can laugh at the truth of this.
You can often hear about a kind of intermediate world or summer country, where a person, deprived of an earthly body, enters for a more or less long time in order to rest and adapt to new living conditions. But there are no hard and fast rules. And in general it is impossible to develop a certain unified scheme of what happens to a person who has passed into the afterlife, no matter how great our tendency to rigidly systematize any area of knowledge. Wherever we come across established teachings, a system of a metaphysical kind, we can be sure that these are dogmatic constructions of speculative human thinking (or delusion), which may still be based on a grain of truth.
In addition, it is possible to assume that it is very difficult for highly developed inhabitants of the Subtle World to express in an accessible form those things and states for which we do not have enough understanding or simply lack the corresponding concepts. In addition, difficulties constantly appear during the "transformation" of messages from the other world through mediums, since they, naturally, one way or another affect these messages. Here is what Dupril wrote about this:
“We are still very far from determining the share of the subjective participation of the medium (in the transmission of messages). On the other hand, among the spirits there is a unanimous conviction of our immortality. And the fact that we know this is quite sufficient for our practical purposes in this world. " And further: “If we are immortal, then the conditions of our future life should be determined by our behavior in this earthly world. This follows from the law of continuous development. That is, it is necessary to abandon any hope that death will be able to save us from the consequences of a life that has been lived wrongly …"
Using the working method of the comparative science of the other world, we will briefly outline some data and descriptions of those who have passed into the Subtle World regarding the reality around them and the conditions of their existence.
“Here the material obeys our will and is formed the way we want it … I cannot explain it. The nature of our matter is completely different from the nature of earthly matter,”says F. Landmann's minutes. "We have everything that you have, but it is not made in factories and plants, it arises by our will, which creates material for us at our will from the spiritual matter that surrounds us, and which, at our desire, determines its form."
Another "communicator" reports:
“We create for ourselves an image of an object, then we blow on it and shape it with our hands. Gradually he begins to take the necessary form, and thoughts give him color."
That is, here, too, our thoughts acquire a fundamental meaning, while willpower depends on the degree of ability to concentrate thought and is supplemented to one degree or another by a pronounced power of imagination (fantasy).
“After gaining experience, we make the forms ourselves … we are all little creators,” says another message. In the same way, the otherworldly argue, it is possible to create living organisms, for example, flowers. This is indirectly confirmed by the message that flowers in the other world look similar to those we know, however, their bright glowing colors and wonderful aroma surpass everything that is similar in earthly life.
“You can always change your flowers at will. A volitional act is necessary to create a different kind of flower."
While to give the form of terrestrial matter, depending on its density, usually one or another tools and aids are needed, "there", as you can see, this is not needed. Thus, the existence of technology in the form as we know it is simply superfluous there. Here's what it says (in one of the posts) about technology and inventions:
“We keep all the inventions made at some time in our memory. But this does not mean at all that these inventions are used in our world. We do not have, for example, any earthly technology with its machines, we do not use such forces as steam or electricity, in any of the forms you know. We do not have vehicles similar to yours, with electric or steam engines. The "production secret" of our world is a spiritual force, not a material one. That is why there are no complicated machines and mechanisms, there are no chimneys disfiguring the landscape, there are no cars rushing at a breakneck speed …"
In other words, although human or earthly inventions are well known to the inhabitants of the other world, they do not need them in their lives, since everything material there always and without delay obeys the spirit.
And in relation to personal clothing, the leading role, as you can see, is played by the ability to influence fluid matter with will and with all one's own being:
“I wear white, sometimes colored, glowing clothes. It can be compared to ancient Greek clothing with its beautifully folded folds - as you know from the classical antique sculptures. These clothes can be given different, graceful shapes at will. This requires almost no effort; clothes change without difficulty at my will. There are no measurements and sewing with fittings, as is the case in earthly life, there are no. As soon as a newcomer arrives, he immediately receives clothes, while its beauty corresponds to the degree of his maturity."
It is often emphasized that otherworldly clothing expresses the inner feeling of the beautiful inhabitant of the otherworldly world.
"However, it always corresponds to the laws of internal harmony and the external forms of artistic expression that follow from them … Therefore, our appearance is absolutely devoid of uniformity due to fashion, as it happens on Earth."
The variety of clothes shows the constantly evolving variety of the state of mind of the one who wears it; that is, it also changes by itself. Natives of nationalities who in the physical world did with a minimum of clothes or did not wear any at all, “and who did not know during their lifetime what it was like to walk dressed, receive here the same clothes as everyone else, because here clothes are an external expression of the inner state …
All-encompassing love connects them with all living, like everyone else … There are no people walking around naked, since lack of culture is an unknown concept here, and wearing clothes has a completely different meaning here, essentially connected with the inner world of a person."
The fact that the spiritual body has all the internal organs, like our physical body, is also confirmed by many messages. However, in lighter areas, certain bodily functions are developed and, as a result, the corresponding organs. The intestines, stomach, liver, lungs, and so on, however, remain the same as in our physical body, but acquire other functions:
“Here only spiritual forces are needed for life, not material ones, as in the material world. Therefore, all these organs serve only one purpose, namely, to capture, perceive these forces and distribute them in the form of streams throughout the body; that is, they are to a certain extent the "receiving stations" of these forces. These forces are our food, and there is no need to digest them like earthly food."
As a result, there are no secretions known to us and the unpleasant phenomena accompanying them. There are no nasty smells, as they are the result of decomposition.
"And decay is death, dying, which is no longer here." There is, however, a kind of metabolism, but not in the form of perishable matter. Therefore, there are no aging phenomena, as we do.
“Here we do not have flowers blooming, leaves do not wither on trees and bushes, fruits do not rot, animals and birds don’t lose hair or feathers …”
Vegetation is not subject to decay, it simply dematerializes; for example, a flower suddenly disappears, or another suddenly appears in its place.
“Nevertheless, there is a constant renewal. Trees change branches, flowers change their petals and green leaves, people and animals change parts of their bodies … So our life is a continuous, changing, constantly renewing stream. But this life is completely different than on Earth. Your old dies and is replaced by a new one; in our country, the old disappears unnoticed by others … And now the old is gone, and its place has already been taken by the new."
R. Passian