3 Death And The After Death States

Death
and the
After-Death
States

Levels of Consciousness
Vehicle
Higher Self
(Spirit; Atma)

Function
Spark of the Divine; True Self within

Spiritual
Seat of spirituality and true intuition;
Consciousness where illumination and enlightenment
(Buddhi)
occurs
Higher Mental

Abstract thinking; formless

Lower Mental

Concrete thinking; with forms

Emotion

Seat of feelings

Physical
Etheric
Dense

The double; vehicle of prana or ch’i
Physical, liquid and gaseous

Life After
Death
Causal Body
(Devachan;
Sukhavati)

Second death



First death



Mental-emotional body
(Kama Loka; Hades)
Etheric double
Physical body

• Upon death, the
physical body,
etheric double and
its prana get
separated from the
higher bodies.
• The silver cord is
broken
• Both the body and
double gradually
decompose

Apparitions of the
Dead
• The apparition is oftentimes
the projection of the mayavi
rupa or the illusory body.
His Mayavi rupa may be often thrown into objectivity, as in
the cases of apparitions after death; but, unless it is
projected with the knowledge of (whether latent or
potential), or, owing to the intensity of the desire to see or
appear to someone, shooting through the dying brain, the
apparition will be simply — automatical; it will not be due
to any sympathetic attraction, or to any act of volition, and
no more than the reflection of a person passing
unconsciously near a mirror is due to the desire of the
latter. (ML70-c)

Mayavi Rupa or
Illusory Body
If a man thinks intensely of another at a
distance, his Māyāvī-Rūpa may appear to
that person, without the projector knowing
anything about it. This Māyāvi-Rūpa is
formed by the unconscious use of
Kriyāśakti, when the thought is at work with
much intensity and concentration. It is
formed without the idea of conscious
projection, and it is itself unconscious, a
thought body, but not a vehicle of
Consciousness.

Nothing can hurt the Māyāvi-Rūpa–
no sharp instrument or weapon––
since, as regards this plane, it is
purely subjective. It has no material
connection with the physical Body,
no umbilical cord. It is spiritual and
ethereal, and passes everywhere
without let or hindrance. It thus
entirely differs from the Li‰gaŚarīra, which, if injured, acts by
repercussion on the physical Body.

This is why the phantoms are often seen in such
cases in the clothes they wear at the particular
moment, and the image reproduces even the
expression on the dying man’s face. If the double
of a man bathing were seen it would seem to be
immersed in water; so when a man who has been
drowned appears to his friend, the image will be
seen to be dripping with water. The cause for the
apparition may be also reversed; i.e., the dying man
may or may not be thinking at all of the particular
person his image appears to, but it is that person
who is sensitive.
Or perhaps his sympathy or his hatred for the
individual whose wraith is thus evoked is very
intense physically or psychically; and in this case
the apparition is created by, and depends upon, the
intensity of the thought.

Brown lady
of Raynham
Hall,
England,
1936

by photographers
Captain Provand and
Indre Shira while
shooting for
Country Life magazine;
purports to show a
ghost descending a
staircase at
England's historic
Raynham Hall which is
said to be haunted by
the ghost of Lady
Dorothy Walpole who
once lived at the Hall.
She is known as The
Brown Lady due to
reports of the spirit
being seen wearing a
brown brocade dress.
She officially died of
smallpox, but rumors
have it that she was
pushed down the
stairs by her husband
after learning of an
affair.

This picture was taken in 1959 by Mrs. Mabel Chinnery apparently no one was
in the backseat when the picture was taken. Mrs. Chinnery recognized the
person in the backseat as her dead mother whose grave she was just visiting!!!
She staked her reputation on the authenticity of the photograph.

This picture was taken by Tony O'Rahilly in 1995, as Wem Town Hall, Shropshire,
England, burned down. The girl in the doorway was not seen at the time the photo
was taken. When examined by photographic expert Dr. Vernon Harrison, former
president of the Royal Photographic Society the photo was deemed genuine, in that
it was not tampered with. In 1977 there was another fire in this place, started
accidentally by a young girl by the name of Jane Churm. Is this her ghost?

This photo was shot at Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone Arizona by Terry Clanton
cousin of the legendary Clanton Gang who shot it out at the OK Corral with the
Earps and Doc Holliday. Clanton, also the webmaster of TombstoneArizona.com
says "This is the photo that changed my opinion about ghost photos." He insists no
one was in the background when the picture was shot. Pictured is a friend of
Clantons, the picture was made to look like a old west type photograph.

The Death Process
• The last organ to die is the brain
• There is a recollection of one’s life in its smallest details.
• Lucidity at moment of death, even if cannot speak.
Speak then in whispers.
• The cord is broken.
• The etheric double dies with the physical body.
• Enters into a state of unconsciousness in Kama-Loka.
• Enters into a gestation period (except for exceptions:
those who die of suicide, murder or accident, and children
who die before 7 years old)

The Death Process II
• The ego is in Desire Body (Kama-rupa). After a
period which varies from a few hours to years,
there is a second recollection of the memories of
the last life, and the soul undergoes the “second
death” where the desire body (kama rupa) is
separated from the Causal Body
• There is a struggle between the higher and
lower regarding the mental matter. Part of it goes
to the Atma-Buddhi and part of it goes to the
desire body (kama-rupa).
• When the personality had been extremely selfish
and evil, there is a tendency for the manas to be
drawn to the desire body. In this case, one
becomes a “lost soul,” because without the mind,
the Atma-Buddhi can no longer function in future
incarnations.

Life After
Death
Causal Body
(in Devachan)

Second death

Mental-emotional body



First death



(in Kama Loka and becomes a shell)

Etheric double
(disintegrates)

Physical body
(decomposes)

Does Hell Exist?
• Deep within us, we feel that Eternal Hell cannot exist because it
would be unjust to punish UNLIMITEDLY people who commit
LIMITED sins.
• Many people commit crimes or sins not because they are
essentially evil people, but because that is how they were brought up
since childhood. (But they will still have to face the karmic
consequences of their actions.) Is it entirely their fault? The parents,
the teachers and society are also at fault.
• Mark Twain: “If God were half as merciful as my mother, he would
never send me to hell.”
• The afterdeath state is the Kama-Loka or the Hades of the Greeks
and New Testament (limbus, purgatory). Hades is the abode of the
dead and not hell.
• “Hades has surely never been meant for Hell. It was always the
abode of the sorrowing shadows or astral bodies of the dead
personalities.” (CW 7:178fn)

Kama-Loka (Desire World)
• Kama-loka is an astral locality, the limbus of
scholastic theology, the Hades of the ancients
• It is the lowest of the three known stages of the
after-death state: Kama-loka, rupa loka (lower
mental), and arupa loka (higher mental)
• It is at this stage that a gestation period occurs.
It is from this that the concept of purgatory was
derived.
• The soul is generally unconscious during this
stage and hence cannot be contacted. There are
exceptions to this.

The Astral Shell
• The astral shell “having been
magnetically and unconsciously
drawn toward a medium, it is
revived for a time and lives in him
by proxy, so to speak. This
"spook," or the Kama-rupa, may be
compared with the jelly-fish, which
has an ethereal gelatinous
appearance so long as it is in its
own element, or water (the
medium's specific AURA), but
which, no sooner is it thrown out of
it, than it dissolves in the hand or
on the sand, especially in sunlight.
In the medium's Aura, it lives a kind
of vicarious life and reasons and
speaks either through the medium's
brain or those of other persons
present.” (KT Sec. 9)

Devachan
• Only the pure parts of the mind go into Devachan.
Thus there is no unhappiness in Devachan.
• The happy memories and circumstances are recalled.
Unfinished researches and endeavors are continued,
but only based on the experiences of the past life.
• Devachan is a subjective state, hence an illusory one
just like in dream state.
• Devachan is a state where the effects are reaped.
• This is different from the concept of heaven in
Christianity and Islam. Devachan is a state of
consciousness and not union with God yet.
• Adepts do not enter into Devachanic state anymore,
since they are beyond the dream state.

How Long Does It Take?
Kama Loka

From a few
minutes to a
number of years

Gestation State

“Very long”,
proportionate to the
Ego’s spiritual
stamina

Rupa Loka of
Devachan

Lasts in proportion
to the good Karma

Can We Contact the Dead?
• Spiritualists believe that
they are able to contact
the dead.
• The Mahatmas state that
what is being contacted
are the shells of dead
people (with certain
exceptions)
Exceptions are (1) during
• In Kama Loka, the soul a few days that follow
death and (2) the period
is unconscious and
prior to entry to
hence cannot be
Devachan.
contacted

At the last moment, the whole life is reflected
in our memory and emerges from all the
forgotten nooks and corners picture after
picture, one event after the other. The dying
brain dislodges memory with a strong
supreme impulse, and memory restores
faithfully every impression entrusted to it
during the period of the brain’s activity.
That impression and thought which was the
strongest naturally becomes the most vivid
and survives so to say all the rest which now
vanish and disappear for ever, to reappear
but in Devachan. (ML93B)

Near-Death Experiences
A near-death experience, or NDE, is a common pattern of
events that many persons experience when they are seriously ill
or come close to death. Although NDEs vary from one person
to another, they often include such features as the following:
• feeling very comfortable and free of pain
• a sensation of leaving the body, sometimes being able to
see the physical body while floating above it
• the mind functioning more clearly and more rapidly than
usual
• a sensation of being drawn into a tunnel or darkness
• a brilliant light, sometimes at the end of the tunnel
• a sense of overwhelming peace, well-being, or absolute,
unconditional love
• a sense of having access to unlimited knowledge
• a "life review," or recall of important events in the past
• a preview of future events yet to come
• encounters with deceased loved ones, or with other
beings that may be identified as religious figures
• The experience is often life-changing

Near-Death Experiences
• feeling very comfortable and free of pain
• a sensation of leaving the body, sometimes being able to
see the physical body while floating above it
• the mind functioning more clearly and more rapidly
than usual
• a sensation of being drawn into a tunnel or darkness
• a brilliant light, sometimes at the end of the tunnel
• a sense of overwhelming peace, well-being, or absolute,
unconditional love
• a sense of having access to unlimited knowledge
• a "life review," or recall of important events in the past
• a preview of future events yet to come
• encounters with deceased loved ones, or with other
beings that may be identified as religious figures
• The experience is often life-changing

Premature Deaths
Our physical life has a certain duration
depending upon the quantity of life
energy available for this life. When it is
exhausted then one will die. But if not,
then the person will not die except for
premature deaths:
• Suicide
• Murder
• Accident
In these cases, one becomes an
earthbound soul until the time of normal
death comes.

“In the case of suicides and
those who die a violent death
in general . . . One of such
Egos, for instance, who was
destined to live, say, 80 or 90
years, but who either killed
himself or was killed by some
accident, let us suppose at the
age of 20 — would have to
pass in the Kama Loka not “a
few years,” but in his case 60
or 70 years, as an Elementary,
or rather an “earth-walker”;
since he is not, unfortunately
for him, even a “shell.”

Premature Deaths
in Kama Loka

And woe to those whose
Trishna (thirst) will attract
them to mediums, and woe to
the latter, who tempt them with
such an easy Upadana
(clinging). For in grasping
them, and satisfying their
thirst for life, the medium
helps to develop in them — is
in fact the cause of — a new
set of Skandhas (aggregates to
constitute the self), a new
body, with far worse
tendencies and passions than
was the one they lost.
And now, you may
understand why we oppose so
strongly Spiritualism and
mediumship. (ML 68)

Premature Deaths
in Kama Loka

Dying

Memory dislodging from physical brain -- review.

Just After
Death

Ego goes unconscious -- loss of 3 lower
Principles -- loss of perceptive objective
faculties forever; loss of spiritual powers of
cogitation and volition, for the time being.
Mayavi-rupa may appear to loved one

Death
Struggle

Ego unconscious in Kama-Loka -- in Earth's atmosphere -- struggle develops between
4th and 5th Principles (Lower Duality and 6th and 7th Principles (Higher Duality).

Gestation

Ego unconscious. Egoic "butterfly" developing in "chrysalis" of 4th and 5th Principles.
Process of "Assimilation" of spiritual content of 5th Principle into 6th Principle.

Entry into
Devachan

Second review of previous life memories.
Consciousness slowly returns. An epitome
of personal memory retained.

Devachan

Subjective dream state. All the scenes and
population of Devachan are as the Ego would
most like them. The Ego cannot communicate
with people on Earth even through a medium and
knows nothing of what is going on on Earth.

Rebirth

Ego goes unconscious at end of
Devachan period prior to rebirth

No possibility of an EGO, other than a
premature death, communicating with
the living, even through a medium during
this period.

4th and 5th Principles sloughed off to
become "shell". Dim consciousness and
personal memory returns to “shell.”
"Shell" can now be attracted to seance
room.
Persons "en rapport" with
Devachanees can, by raising their
consciousness, feel to be
"communicating" with them.

New personality will give expression to the
Skandhas, the residual tendencies and
characteristics of previous lives.

How do we prepare for
death?
• Acquire a more accurate knowledge about
death and dying from the accumulated
wisdom of the ages and from scientific
researches.
• Be aware of any automatic fear of death,
and use fear processing to remove this
reaction pattern
• Live fully with awareness and without being
imprisoned by fear and social pressure
• Prepare for any eventuality and do your best
• Complete your relationships

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