The transition to the Subtle World in ordinary people occurs unconsciously. Consciousness awakens only after rest, a kind of sleep, gradually assimilating into completely new conditions.
R. Monroe writes: “During one of my astral travels I found myself in some place with well-groomed flowers, trees and lawns. It resembled a large park with numerous intersecting alleys. Benches were set up along the paths. Hundreds of men and women strolled and sat around. Some looked completely pacified, others anxious, others seemed confused, shocked. I got the impression that they feel insecure, do not know what to do and what will happen in the next moment. For some reason, I realized that this is a meeting place where new arrivals are waiting for friends and family. Relatives found newcomers in this Meeting Place and escorted them to where they were to “live further” (in the Subtle World) …
Getting into the Subtle World when the physical body is thrown off, people usually experience a feeling of great confusion. Confusion is the opposite of composure and calmness. It is to collect yourself and your energies inside that will be the right action. Even in earthly life, with all kinds of surprises and disruption of the usual course of phenomena, this concentration is necessary before starting any action.
A moment of silence or calmness before the manifestation of activity is necessary, of course, in all cases of surprise. Therefore, it is indicated (from Above) not to be amazed at anything and not to be surprised at anything that through feelings brings a person out of balance. The collected, concentrated peace of mind is necessary when crossing the Great Borders. Otherwise, confusion can draw a person into the funnels of dangerous astral vortices. This collection of forces of spirit within will be the first action.
Subsequent ones will flow from it. On condition of calmness, the memory of past sojourn in the conditions of the Subtle World is quickly cleared. The knowledge accumulated earlier and especially in the last incarnation will immediately come to the rescue and help to navigate in new conditions. The main thing is to completely destroy in oneself the false and harmful attitude towards the phenomena of the Astral World. Spirits freed from the body, i.e. the so-called dead are no smarter, no more terrible and no more wonderful than the living. Elements of miraculousness, fear of the otherworldly, admiration for the inhabitants of the Subtle World must be left for (bearded) babies - there are many of them in the realm of true knowledge both on Earth and in the Supermundane.
No wonder - says the Great Teacher, - We compare many dead to swindlers crowding in the bazaar. What a miracle or awe in front of the unusual!.. The Subtle World is just as common as the Dense World, for the one who knows, and the charm has been removed from his eyes. This is necessary in order to nip in the bud the feeling of fear or confusion in front of the unknown …
The transition to the Subtle World should be painless by its nature. People, having completed the earthly journey, must accept the next passage naturally. But they themselves complicate the solemn change of Being. They themselves bred diseases and send them to loved ones …
Death from accidents, death caused without preparation is not good because a person leaves for that World, fiercely immersed in the earthly, and a lot of effort and help is required to help free him from the dense evidence. Even a small acquaintance with the Teaching is extremely necessary and useful in the transition to that World, for much helps to understand and discard. And since no one escapes the death of the body, it does not interfere with reflecting on what awaits a person passing into the Subtle World.
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Monroe says: “… I saw a woman who was marking time in one place,… tears in her eyes..:“What grief, what grief!.. Mommy didn't want to leave you … Baby, it just so happened. But I will return … I will return to you very soon … I will figure out what happened, and I will return right away …"
… Another man in his sixties, quickly moved back and forth and with force beat his fist on the palm of his other hand..: “Damn it!.. Wow! And I was just about to stop and enjoy myself! Damn it! Now she spends my fortune on rags and stupid cruises - and I'm out of the game. We must return … return before it's too late … Damn it! …"
… In another place, I noticed a man of indeterminate age, squatting down. He blindly stared in front of him and shook his head …: “I did not have time to tell her that he did not want to cripple her … I was drunk, just drunk, that's all. Horrible! What now? I knew about that turn on the road … I need to fix it somehow …"
… The attention was attracted by a slender girl in blue jeans. With akimbo, she boldly looked around…: “Is this the vaunted afterlife? For some reason, neither God nor angels are visible … I knew it! Here you go!.."
… A gray-haired middle-aged man stood and, folding his arms across his chest, looked at the ghostly haze spreading in front of him..: “Well, I did my best. I left them money in the account, a good house … I need to change the right front wheel in the van … I hope Ben will take care of the contract in the Holmes case … Yes, the company needed me … Eh, what would I like to have one more lunch with Luigi, nowhere have not tried this fish again …"
Having thrown off the old, obsolete body, a person returns to the Subtle World with all the content that makes up his inner world. Everything that a person considers his own, all and every property, he continues to keep in mind, if he has not freed himself from it in advance. Likewise, his habits and inclinations, his abilities and shortcomings remain with him, as well as all ideas about life in the Supermundane - in a word, everything that he lived on Earth. But in the Subtle World the living conditions are different, and earthly survivals are not needed. If they remain, then the person lives with them and in them.
Complete liberation from everything earthly and understanding of the conditions of the Subtle World are necessary. It’s too late to get free there, because what was taken there inadvertently with oneself, adheres to consciousness, like the poisoned cloth of Hercules’s clothing. That is why liberation must begin here, on Earth, imposing on everything around, the seal of renunciation of it.
The renunciation of the World will consist in the liberation of consciousness from the usual idea of the surrounding world and the things that a person temporarily possesses.
There is nothing of our own, and everything is given for a while, while on Earth, and it is impossible to take anything there. The custom of giving things before death is good. It is good to deepen this principle and extend the liberation of consciousness not only to things, but also to phenomena of a mental order. All his life a person is used to eating and drinking, but there is no need for it. You don't need to live in a house, dress and put on shoes, go to work, feel cold or warm, move with your feet, do work with your hands - all this is not applicable there.
Thought moves, and one can fly, and with thought one can clothe the subtle body with clothes according to taste and desire. And you don't need, you don't need to drink or eat at home. Everything is new, everything is unusual. But instead of an unbiased and open acquaintance with the unusual, from an earthly point of view, conditions of the Supermundane World, an ignorant and not enlightened person continues to drag along, surrounding himself with him, his usual idea of what is around. Rags and scraps of earthly thoughts and images of the same order stand before consciousness, plunging it into the ghostly world of earthly remnants and blocking the truth of the Subtle World from it. And even among those who are not attached to the earthly, if the world outlook on the Supermundane does not exist, then one has to enter into it in complete ignorance, while precise knowledge of the subtle conditions of existence is needed.
“… One night … Monroe found himself … in a large spacious house … and came across a short and fragile woman with gray hair … She wandered around the house, moving from one room to another. When he held out his hand, trying to get her attention, she was clearly surprised at Monroe's appearance and that he noticed her.
- Have you come to hang pictures again? She asked.
He replied in the negative and said that he had come to her.
“They took all the paintings … they took them out of my house. This is my home! But they don't even want to talk to me.
Monroe asked what she was doing here, why she was not leaving.
- This is my house. I live here. And I will live, even if no one pays attention to me.
He asked if she felt that a lot had changed.
- Only that no one is listening to me anymore. They pass by as if I'm not here.
Monroe asked if she remembered she died.
- She died? What do you! Yes, I was sick, but now I have recovered. I was sick, and the next thing I remember: I got up and walked!
He noted that no one sees her and she is probably very lonely. The woman shook her head.
“They didn't pay much attention to me anyway, even when William was alive. Now he's gone, and they stopped noticing me altogether.
“I bet you won't be able to move this chair,” I insisted. - The hand will go through it. Try it!
- What nonsense! - she exclaimed. “Well, of course I can move it. Let's go to the dining room.
She made several attempts, but her palm just passed through the physical back of the chair. The woman looked at Monroe in confusion.
- I do not understand what it means. I think this is one of those hallucinations that happen in old age. However … you saw it too?
Monroe showed her that his hand, too, went unobstructed through the back of the chair.
- Oh, and you have the same? - the woman was amazed.
Monroe explained that this happens to every person when he is deprived of his physical body.
- But … but I'm alive!
He said that only the physical body dies. The body, not the person. The woman was silent for a long time, but did not seem particularly shocked. Thinking, she looked up anxiously.
“I was hoping William would come for me, but he's still gone. And I loved my house so much … He built it just for me. I don't want to leave here.
Monroe suggested that she look for William.
- Oh no, it's impossible! He died five years ago, and he said again that they could look for him - at least just try. She stared at Monroe.
"So I really … died?" Monroe nodded.
"Are you … an angel?" No, they are not at all similar. You seem quite ordinary.
Monroe assured her that he was not really an angel, just a friend …
"It's so lonely here … Do we really have a chance to find William?"
He said that the attempt was not torture, held out his hand to her and began to climb to the ceiling.
- What are you doing? I can not! I can't!.. You have the most ordinary palm, I feel - why did you so simply rise into the air?
Monroe gently pulled her hand, and she, too, easily lifted off the floor. Her face filled with delight.
- Wow, how great! So this is what it means to be dead! God, God! Let's go look for William - I can imagine how surprised he will be!.."
Next, one of the thousands of Monroe flights in the Subtle World. He tells:
“… I made another attempt. … Someone called me. When I turned around, I saw a strange glow. It gradually thickened into the figure of a man: short, middle-aged, with sharpened features, and angrily pursed lips.
- Hey, you! Where are you going?
I approached him carefully.
- I ask, where are you going?
- Hmm … Hello.
- Sniffing out the mysteries of the universe again?
- Yes, I guess that's what I'm doing.
- Well, good luck! But I just don't have enough time for such things.
- Why? What happened?
- What happened?! I died - that's what happened!
- And what's wrong with that?
- Nothing, I just did not have time to prepare.
- It seems to me that people are never ready for this.
- Really? I would have prepared, but no one told me anything! Nobody said that everything would be like this! These bastards (i.e. church priests) screamed about the gates of heaven, about hellfire and eternal torment - and after all, they did not even realize what nonsense they were! Okay, good luck. Eh, it would be better if they told me everything as it is, and would not fool around …
- Wait, so what's the problem?
- What is the problem? Look around - that's what!
- Honestly, I don't see anything special. Normal deep blackness.
- That's it! Nothing, absolutely nothing! You know, you're the first person I met here. Nothing and no one - and then suddenly you appear!
“I’m sorry if this upset you.
- You are the same as me, right?
- In what sense?
“He also died recently, and now you don’t know what the hell to do.
- Well, not quite…
- Come on! It's simple: you either died or you didn't.
“The thing is, I’m not dead yet.
- What, then, is not dead?
- I'm alive.
- Then why the hell are you hanging around here?
- Long story.
He looked at me in disgust.
- So I believed it! If you had not died, you simply would not have been here!
- It is not that simple.
- Well, tell me! Yeah, I get it! Did someone send you?
- No, no one sent me, I just passed by. Better tell me, how did you die?
- They brought me, that's how! I spent several weeks in this hospital, wanted to go home - so, no, they entangled me with their tubes, bored everything with all sorts of needles … … Do you understand?
- What happened next?
- I coughed for a long time, then the cough stopped. Then I thought that I needed to get out of bed as soon as possible and get away with my feet. I must have jumped up too briskly, because I was immediately carried through the ceiling, and I continued to fly until I found myself here. When I walked through the ceiling, I immediately realized that I was dead. My brains are all right, right?
- I agree. Listen, would you like to come with me?
- Do you want to help me? You? Why on earth?
“Anyway, it's better than staying here forever.
- Damn it, everything is messed up in my head! No heaven, no hell … Nothing at all!
- Here, hold on to my hand.
- No really! Whenever someone tried to help me, it was just a nuisance! My advice to you: make them (the churchmen) tell everything honestly! Don't believe their stupid stories. Nobody told me (about the afterlife) … but they could! I would have listened - but no! Now you have to figure out everything yourself … I can't even imagine where to start here …"
The law of consonance and conformity rules in the Supermundane, however, as elsewhere. But there his action is instantaneous. The thought about movement generates movement, about rest - peace, about flight - flight, about Distant Worlds - staying on them; the thought of the Lord of Light - gives the closeness of the Lord, about the fathers - it sends to them, about the dark - plunges into the hopeless.
Usually, going there, people do not know what they need to want, and therefore continue to live among the debris of earthly thinking, but the one who knows firmly holds the rudder of the boat of the spirit in his hands, rushing in the desired direction. Everything is very simple and very easy, but people do not know, and knowing, they do not believe and believe that the parable of the sower and sowing is just a fairy tale, but the Subtle World is the World where the fairy tale comes true. And when the Teacher of Light said that life would turn out to be a miraculous and fabulous reality, he meant the stay of the spirit (i.e., man) in the Supermundane, where the engine is the heart that directs thought.
When the veil is lifted and the Subtle World enters the human consciousness, then both Worlds acquire the reality of being on the verge of both. The reality of the Subtle World becomes obvious, visible and felt. The scope is expanding.
Then the transition to the Subtle World becomes imperceptible and death loses its sting. Of course, the Subtle World is bright, colorful and more impressive than the earthly one. It is extremely diverse. When a person enters into Him prepared, then adaptation to new conditions occurs rather quickly …
If you look back at your past, you can see how the consciousness was completely immersed in its surroundings and lived in this environment. By analogy, it is easy to imagine that during the transition to the Subtle World, consciousness will completely plunge into Him and the earthly environment will cease to exist for a person.
What is around becomes reality for consciousness. Consciousness changes depending on external influences. The earthly vibrations will go away, they will be replaced by the vibrations of the Invisible World. The organs of perception will also change. Thought images and other subtle formations, not visible to the eye now, will become visible, instead of earthly ones.
Earthly transport is not needed there, because thought moves. Mental energy replaces mechanical force. The entire environment of a person is largely created by his thought or is attracted by thought. The ability of mental creativity is acquired by all people, but according to the level of consciousness, according to the degree of its development and characteristics. All that is necessary for the extraction of spatial energies, that is, for life, a person carries there with him and in himself. The external reacts in tune with the impulses and strivings of the spirit. Man, as it were, creates the world as a result of creative impulses born in his microcosm, and reaps the fruits of his aspirations …
… Indeed, he who passes in good, multiplies good, and who passes over in evil, will be the source of evil. This is how our energies can be infinitely multiplied. Therefore, we are obliged to refine our organism so that it becomes a worthy container …
… Especially remarkable is the transition with the preservation of consciousness, then it is clearly possible to imagine how the earthly rags fall off and the incorruptible accumulation rises - it may turn out to be a true treasure. One can understand why such a subtlest treasure cannot be revealed amid the gross conditions of the physical World.
The number of people who preserve the continuity of a clear and waking consciousness during the transition to the Subtle World, at least in its middle strata, is not so overwhelmingly large.
Many, during the transition, fall asleep or drag out a semi-conscious and painful existence there. Variations in states of consciousness are endless. Namely, there are as many stages of consciousness as there are steps in Infinity and vice versa. Only those who, during their lifetime, created a connection with the Higher Worlds through a heartfelt striving for Evolution and for the preservation of such consciousness, are fully conscious in the Subtle World. Thus, a materialist, with the most developed intellect, but denying any spirituality, any possibility of existence in the Higher Worlds, may not have a conscious life in the higher strata of the Subtle World. He did not create, did not consolidate the higher attractions, then almost immediately he will be drawn into the vortex of (rough) earth's gravity, and in a semi-conscious or unconscious state will wait for a new physical incarnation.
Of course, one can imagine what this new birth will be like, for, except for the cases of high Spirits, such an almost immediate return to Earth is undesirable. As you know, being in the Subtle World is of great importance for nourishing, strengthening and transforming the accumulated energies into spiritual forces. Therefore, one can imagine how the decomposition of the spiritual essence occurs in the absence of such nutrition for a long time.
The Doctrine of Life says: "In people, the subtle body is almost formed, but the mental body is formed only in a select few." Consequently, the semi-conscious, or even temporary suppression of consciousness in the higher strata of the Subtle World is in most cases inevitable. The attainment of conscious existence, or the preservation of full consciousness in all shells, in all spheres, is the greatest achievement of an Arhat. This is amrita or true immortality. Therefore, all the efforts of the Great Teachers are aimed at expanding the consciousness of mankind, at developing the mental body, at awakening the highest aspiration to create a magnetic current or vortex that attracts a person to the Higher Spheres.
Since the development of consciousness is the most difficult and longest process in the Cosmos, the achievement of the preservation of the continuity of consciousness in thinner shells or on the higher planes of the Subtle World would greatly accelerate evolution. The spiritual essence (i.e. man), having passed into the Subtle World, continues its conscious or semi-conscious existence, depending on the development of its Higher Manas or spirituality. Here on Earth, are there many people living a fully conscious life?
As below, so above. Only with the difference that everything is brighter there, everything is more definite, and, therefore, more intense, both in that (conscious) and in the other (unconscious) side. It is necessary to firmly understand that what was not realized during life on Earth will not be realized in the Subtle World either. Remember, as it is said by the Forces of Light, that “in the Subtle World it is almost impossible to acquire new consciousness”. Here, in earthly life, it is necessary to plant the seeds of aspirations, which in the Subtle World will be transformed into knowledge. Otherwise, there would be no need for us to return to the Earth, to its dense World.
… Verily, one can rejoice when the spirit (man) passes into the Subtle World, having cognized before that the striving towards the Infinite Hierarchy of Light. Such a spirit receives support from the Great Teachers, continues its training and participates in the work that is closest to its spirit. All earthly spiritual and heart connections are not only preserved in the Subtle World, but also grow and refine.
And your calmness and joy, to a large extent, stem from the fact that at night your spirit is in full communion with the Being of Light close to you. Bright, joyfully directed thoughts not only do not burden the person who has passed, but, on the contrary, such vibes also strengthen his striving for the common good. Therefore, rejoice at the opportunities that have opened up and grow your wings yourself, so that your transition is just as joyful and beautiful.
… The very moment of transition to the Subtle World has the appearance of dizziness, the same as during fainting or the onset of epilepsy. Then the following feelings depend on the preparedness of the consciousness, or rather, on the Fiery Ego. If a person's consciousness has been clouded or dim, then feelings cannot be transformed in a new state. Then comes a kind of forgetfulness or drowsy wandering. The state is not pleasant. Of course, I'm not talking about the gloomy state of criminals and vicious - the essence of these torments is indescribable. But here it is better to talk about the possibilities of the light ones.
So, if Agni (Fire) was awakened during life either by knowledge, or by an achievement of feeling, then he will immediately perform a great transmutation. As a true Light, - he will indicate the direction, like luminiferous helium, - he will lift a person into the destined sphere.
The fire of the heart, so inconspicuous in earthly life, becomes the guiding principle in the Subtle World. But not only he shines in the Subtle World, he is to come as a wire to the Fiery Beings. Without Agni one cannot accept and join the Light of the Fiery World …
A spirit that has cognized the power of psychic energy tension during life can count on the power of psychic energy during its transition to the Subtle World. Our subtle body is nourished by these saturations, and the fluids of psychic energy form the subtle body. During the transmutation of the centers, of course, psychic energy acts especially intensely, and the centers collect these powerful fluids to strengthen the subtle body. When psychic energy is accumulated by exalted feelings, then the transmutation of the subtle body is accordingly saturated with fiery energies. It is so important to intensify one's strength in the striving understanding of the power of psychic energy. The action of fiery energy intensifies all subsequent manifestations of life.
… We must rejoice at every refinement of psychic energy. Indeed, here, in earthly incarnation, we crystallize psychic energy. When we pass into the astral plane, we must bring not only consciousness about the future, but also ignite the striving with a crystal of psychic energy, otherwise the passing (physically dying people) plunge themselves into the twilight of survivals (vices, passions and habits). Therefore, the accumulation of psychic energy is valuable.
At the threshold in the Subtle World, striving plays a decisive role. Striving to the higher spheres gives the spirit the force of separation from the Earth. To teach the striving for the Light every living being is the greatest task.
In the construction of life, separation and attraction to all life manifestations should be equally nurtured in the heart, for such spiritual balance will open many innermost aspirations …
When moving to a new place, it occupies the old one in the mind, and the old one goes into the past. During the transition to the Subtle World, it replaces the Dense World. We advise you to change your place of residence more often during earthly life, so that when crossing the Great Borders you will not be too amazed at the change in environmental conditions. Wanderers have a great advantage over sedentary inhabitants - they are not tied to a prison house and are accustomed to changing external conditions. You need to have a lot of inner content in order to withstand being in the same place for a long time …
The law of transition to the World of Spirit is not difficult. No state can be equalized. Like the dust of a volcano, there are countless spirits (people) returning to the Spiritual World. Of course, Matter is a state of Spirit, and blood, or its equivalent, differs so much from the spirit fed by prana that the boundaries are torn all over the worlds. The spirit (man) hardly recognizes the abandonment of matter (dense, physical). The spirit attached to the Earth puts on an astral body, which creates for him the illusion of the Earth, here in the hotbed of lust and remorse (in the astral layers of Kama-Loka). But a spirit that has flown out only with a striving upward can bypass the astral plane, for the astral body is an extra rubbish. The less litter, the cleaner the consciousness (of a person). It is difficult to imagine on Earth how to leave matter without despising it, giving it to a new formation. But you have a better example of giving any thing. The best giver will come up with the best gift. Therefore, matter that has clothed a high spirit gives great benefit, for nothing dries up.
… The seed of the spirit continuously continues life, and the balloon of nervous emanations carries the spirit to the height it has built. Therefore, speaking of immortality only as a scientific fact, they are deeply right. The last thought, when leaving (physical) matter, is like an arrow. This moment decides the direction of flight,