Soul after death
More often, people of mediocre knowledge who study the "other side" ask the question: "What does the soul experience immediately after separation from the body?"
It is downright sad to hear the answers that the so-called authorities sometimes give on this topic. It is true that "insufficient knowledge is dangerous."
As a rule, a person imagines that the soul simply emerges from the body and immediately enters a new world of activity - a land of wonders, mysterious and mysterious phenomena. Many live in the hope of meeting, on the other side, with all previously departed loved ones. Although there is something corresponding to this, the soul has to go through very different experiences immediately after leaving their body. For clarity, let us discuss the experiences of the soul before and immediately after separation from the body.
A person, when approaching what is commonly called "death", but that there is only a transitional state between two great planes of life, feels a gradual fatigue of physical senses. Sight, hearing, touch are becoming weaker and weaker, and human "life" resembles a candle flame that is gradually extinguishing. This is often the only phenomenon of approaching death. But in many other cases, when the physical senses are dulled, psychic senses are surprisingly sharpened. It happens quite often that the dying person discovers consciousness of what is happening in another room or in another place. Clairvoyance, and sometimes clairaudience, is often associated with the approach of death; the dying person sees and hears what is happening in distant places.
Often there are cases, noted by the Society for Psychical Research and even more often passed on in the family circle, that the dying person protrudes so much from his personality that friends and family in the distance actually see him and sometimes even enter into conversation with him. With an accurate comparison of time, it turns out that such phenomena, almost always, occur rather before the death of a person, and not after death. There are, of course, cases that the strong desire of the dying person contributes to the transfer of his astral body to the presence of a person close to him immediately after death, but such cases are much rarer than previous ones. In most cases, this phenomenon comes from such a powerful process of transmission of thought that the presence of a dying friend or relative is imprinted on the visited person, even while the soul of the latter is still in the body.
In many cases, the dying person is mentally aware of the proximity of loved ones who have died earlier. This shouldn't mean that those people are actually present. It must be remembered that the boundaries of space are erased on the astral plane and that it is possible to enter into close relations with the soul of another, despite the space. In other words, without the contiguity of space, two souls are able to enjoy the mutual closeness of mind and spirit. It is very difficult for someone who is still bound by the flesh to understand. On the material plane, of course, the laws of space govern. Telepathy explains to us the phenomenon of the “other side”. Two persons in the physical world can enter the closest relationship through the communication of their spiritual principles, while being in different parts of the world. Likewise, two souls are able to enjoy the closest communication, regardless of the issue of space.
A dying person often enters into spiritual communication with those already on the other side, and this is very encouraging for him. The beautiful incident that accompanies what we call "death" is the fact that in reality there are connections with loved ones that good people hope for. But not quite the way these good people usually imagine it.
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The dying person's astral body is gradually freed from the physical. "Astral body" is an exact copy of the physical body, and during life, in most cases, both are combined. But, the astral body leaves the physical body at the death of the latter and makes up for some time the shell of the soul. In essence, it is also material, but of such a subtle substance that it is inaccessible to measurements that reveal ordinary matter.
In the end, the "astral body" simply escapes the physical body and remains in connection with it only with the help of a thin thread or rope of the astral composition. Finally, this connection is also interrupted, and the "astral body" is carried away, inhabited by the soul that has left the physical body. Both the physical and "astral" bodies serve only as a temporary shell for the soul itself.
The soul that has left the physical body (in the "astral body") is immersed in a deep sleep or coma (a kind of lethargic sleep), reminiscent of the state of an unborn child several months before birth. The soul is preparing for rebirth on the astral plane, and it needs time to adapt to new conditions and gain the strength and energy required for a new phase of existence. Nature is full of such analogies - birth on the physical and on the astral plane has much in common, and in both cases a state of coma precedes. During this sleep-like state, the soul dwells in an "astral body" which serves as a sheath and protection for it, in the same way that the womb serves as a protection for an infant before its physical birth.
Before continuing, let us pause to consider some of the features of the soul's life at this stage. As a rule, the soul sleeps peacefully, not disturbed by outside influences and protected from them. But sometimes there are exceptions, namely, in the so-called "dreams" of a sleeping soul. These dreams come from two reasons:
1) excessive aspirations that fill the spirit of the dying person, such as love, hatred or unfulfilled duties;
2) excessive aspirations or thoughts of those remaining on Earth, provided that these people are in fairly close relationships with a deceased soul, in the sense of love or other deep affections.
Each of these reasons, or two together, cause anxiety in the sleeping soul and seek to draw the soul back to earth, either in the form of dreamlike, telepathic communication, or, in other rare cases, something reminiscent of the state of a sleepwalker in physical life. Both are regrettable, since the soul is disturbed by this, and this hinders its evolution and development in its new phase of existence. We will discuss this in more detail.
A person who calmly passes from the material plane to the astral plane is rarely disturbed by "dreams" during astral sleep. He naturally goes through a period of coma and just as easily passes into a new phase of existence, like a bud passing into a flower. It happens differently with people filled with earthly lusts or strong remorse, hatred, great love or care for those left behind. In the latter case, the poor soul is often tormented by these earthly bonds, and its astral sleep becomes feverish and restless.
In these cases, an involuntary attempt to enter into relations with the earthly plane or to manifest to people who remained on earth is often noticed. In rare cases, as already mentioned, even a state similar to the earthly state of a lunatic or walking in a dream follows, and the poor sleeping soul sometimes even visits the former lands. In such cases, when this appearance is visible to people, one can always note its half-awakened appearance: something is missing that was during earthly life. Ghost stories confirm this, and this is the only way to explain it to yourself.
Over time, however, these poor souls attracted to earthly souls get tired and eventually plunge into a blessed sleep, which is their just lot. In the same way, the strong aspirations of those who are left behind often facilitate the establishment of intercourse between them and the departed soul, thus leading it to anxiety and anxiety. Many of the people, with the best of intentions, delayed the natural development of a loved one on the astral plane and deprived the weary soul of the well-deserved rest.
Ramacharaka