We awaken into creature consciousness in childhood and most of us remain here until our physical body perishes. Some of us do not follow the same pattern. Some have the experience of leaving this body consciousness behind much earlier than physical death. This points to a possible conclusion that our mortal death occurs in the realm of the mind rather, being an experience of inner consciousness, rather than depending entirely on the death of the physical body. I believe this to be the truth. I believe mortality depends upon identification with the life of the physical body and that it is a state of consciousness rather than a condition innate to having a physical body.
Several observations lead me to this belief. First, the experience of matter bound consciousness depends on ignorance of the subtle astral reality that governs the physical. The base construction of matter is not solid atoms, but cosmic subtle energies within the atom. So the experience of dying comes from a change or deepening in perception rather than a departure from one real physical space to another with different heavenly laws. We may experience death simply by expanding our consciousness, or breaking it down, until we perceive the energy or consciousness that both transcends and creates what we call the physical. This reveals that the base nature of what we call Earth and what we call Heaven are the same.
We could only die while we remaining embodied if during this shift of perception we recognized that some part of us, our life and being, continued after the death of mortal consciousness. Some kind of immortal consciousness. We perceive this exact thing when we see deep enough within the physical. We gain a consciousness of a realm within the gross physical that we are very much apart of. Dying while remaining alive means seeing that this realm, Heaven, surrounds us all the time. The Earth becomes an image within a greater image of teeming astral energies. Our body a construct of much finer light.
As soon as someone experiencing this consciousness encounters a situation that brings up a mortal fear or mortal desire, they recoil from their expanded awareness back into dualistic mortal sense bound consciousness. They once again experience the gross solidity of the world and the innate fear it creates in it's inhabitants. This demonstrates how identification with the physical body and its senses determines the experience of mortality from the position of immortal consciousness becoming mortal in addition to mortal consciousness becoming immortal.
Another indication that this is true presents itself in the study of adolescing children. As they grow up, they become more and more identified with the material world until they often lose to a large degree the natural levity of their being as adults. As they bodies solidify, so does their consciousness.
Older people indicate the opposite affect to a certain extent. The flame of their life burns through the solidity of their Earthly bonds creating a transparent quality where it is much easier to see into the beyond.
This all points to the conclusion that mortality is a temporary state of consciousness, an in-between, rather than the end all be all of existence. Also that immortal consciousness dwells within us always, it is merely temporarily hidden from us while we become immersed in the bodily life. If the laws of the physical and the mortal are at best temporary, then what other laws may define a broader experience of what constitutes our life beyond the physical, a life that can possibly include the physical if we reach it before we pass? What laws are more paramount to the integrity of our being? One's that we find it it difficult to uphold while we inhabit the physical. What can we use to our advantage if what we depend on more accurately is a sea of astral energies and trans-physical forces than a mechanical 3-dimensional world? Who are we in this greater expanse, and who do we wish to become? How may we assist others from this awareness? What does it beckon us to do for humanity at large? If, I am not a body, but an immortal soul?
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