09-04-2017, 03:58 PM
> I had heard that after death you go to the Devachanic plane, where you get to live out all the desires you wished to experience in your former life.
You can do that if you wish. The psychic body is an energy body, and so responds to impulses of the same frequencies that compose it. Those impulses can come both from within and without. You'll recall the Simon and Garfunkel song, The Boxer, and the words, "Still a man hears what he wants to hear, And disregards the rest." In the psychic realm this can be literally true. If you pass from physical into psychic life (sc. "die") knowing that you will enter Paradise, and that the door prize is seventy-two virgins, then you'll get them right enough, though both they and the pleasures you share will be manifestations of your own psychic mechanism. Depending on its energy and the strength of your convictions, the fantasy will be quite convincing for a time.
I'll take some time to explain this since there are so many misconceptions surrounding it. The first thing requiring clarification is "Astral Projection". It's commonly thought that the astral body used in projection is just that - what I have called the psychic body - but it is not. The physical and psychic exist in a state, quite literally, of atomic intimacy. Should you ever succeed in separating the physical and psychic bodies, the physical would appear rapidly to "melt"; its autonomic functions would immediately cease, its chemical processes would quickly run to completion, and soon thereafter the normal processes consequent upon death would set in. A normal death, whether peaceful or violent, requires some time for the separation of the two, whereas the process I've just described is quite abnormal, probably impossible other than for an adept.
The vehicle used in astral projection is correctly referred to as an "astral double". It's an energy structure imitating the shape of the physical, connected to it by a "silver cord", and so is not autonomous - sc. not a "body". In today's terms it's best thought of as a highly sophisticated "tethered robot", but whereas a mechanical robot has sensors to detect sound, light etc. the entire double is itself a sensor so attuned to consciousness that its "owner" believes him or herself to be "in it", or to "be it". With practice and skill this double can function as a highly effective quasi-independent vehicle for psychic exploration. However, its perceptions are limited by its composing frequencies: if these are of low grade, it will perceive the coarser frequencies in its surroundings and its owner will believe that he/she/ is exploring hell; if of high grade, that he/she is exploring heaven, or the Devachanic plane if you prefer. However, both may be in the same region of space, just perceiving different aspects of it.
Once you're "dead", much the same state of affairs prevails, but there's no need to "travel about": your own imagination can provide the "scenery" and your "companions". It actually requires a fair level of development to prevent this: to stop your imagination from manufacturing fantasies and allow you to see where you really are rather than where you "unreally" are.
The more usual course of events is that a person dies with certain expectations and half-formed ideas, and emerges into the astral in a very confused and often apprehensive state. He/she is almost always met by others with whom long-term relationships have been formed. Typically they will be "dead relatives" or suchlike with similar beliefs, who will invite the newcomer to "enter heaven" with them. Groups of discarnate people gather together, their energies reinforce, and there are many such groups who have created their own heavens, hells, whatever, that can be quite convincing, at least for a time.
However, just as the physical body needs food for sustaining its structure, so too does the psychic need structure to sustain its shape. The psychic body of a newly "dead" person is an exact replica of the shape of the former physical, but after a while this shape starts to get "fuzzy round the edges", so to speak, and the same is true of all energy structures unless they are maintained by a person or entity of greater power and development than ordinary folk. Without such an entity, everything eventually starts to lose its shape and structure: the devout Muslim's virgins start to look decidedly patchy, the bowls of fruit lose colour and conviction, and Paradise starts to "fizzle out" around you. Most disappointing, and eventually alarming, which is why potent entities are so popular: they can sustain the convincing illusion of their "worshippers" far longer.
It is also why many older entities in the psychic realm are reported as simply ovoids of light: they've lost their original shape; some have no need of it, more potent ones can either "adopt" whatever shape they choose, or "cast an illusion" into the mind of the beholder.
This is why cyclic re-incarnation is necessary: without it, the psychic body would soon lose not only its shape but its inner structure. It's mind and perceptions would grow fuzzy, dim and meaningless, its consciousness would drift into imbecility, and in theory it would simply fade away. In practice the "drive for survival" and desire for sensory experience would have drawn it back into incarnation before that.
Another way of obtaining "structural energy" and maintaining "psychic shape" is by preying on the incarnate - literally sucking energy from them, but that's a separate, large, and rather unpleasant subject.
You can do that if you wish. The psychic body is an energy body, and so responds to impulses of the same frequencies that compose it. Those impulses can come both from within and without. You'll recall the Simon and Garfunkel song, The Boxer, and the words, "Still a man hears what he wants to hear, And disregards the rest." In the psychic realm this can be literally true. If you pass from physical into psychic life (sc. "die") knowing that you will enter Paradise, and that the door prize is seventy-two virgins, then you'll get them right enough, though both they and the pleasures you share will be manifestations of your own psychic mechanism. Depending on its energy and the strength of your convictions, the fantasy will be quite convincing for a time.
I'll take some time to explain this since there are so many misconceptions surrounding it. The first thing requiring clarification is "Astral Projection". It's commonly thought that the astral body used in projection is just that - what I have called the psychic body - but it is not. The physical and psychic exist in a state, quite literally, of atomic intimacy. Should you ever succeed in separating the physical and psychic bodies, the physical would appear rapidly to "melt"; its autonomic functions would immediately cease, its chemical processes would quickly run to completion, and soon thereafter the normal processes consequent upon death would set in. A normal death, whether peaceful or violent, requires some time for the separation of the two, whereas the process I've just described is quite abnormal, probably impossible other than for an adept.
The vehicle used in astral projection is correctly referred to as an "astral double". It's an energy structure imitating the shape of the physical, connected to it by a "silver cord", and so is not autonomous - sc. not a "body". In today's terms it's best thought of as a highly sophisticated "tethered robot", but whereas a mechanical robot has sensors to detect sound, light etc. the entire double is itself a sensor so attuned to consciousness that its "owner" believes him or herself to be "in it", or to "be it". With practice and skill this double can function as a highly effective quasi-independent vehicle for psychic exploration. However, its perceptions are limited by its composing frequencies: if these are of low grade, it will perceive the coarser frequencies in its surroundings and its owner will believe that he/she/ is exploring hell; if of high grade, that he/she is exploring heaven, or the Devachanic plane if you prefer. However, both may be in the same region of space, just perceiving different aspects of it.
Once you're "dead", much the same state of affairs prevails, but there's no need to "travel about": your own imagination can provide the "scenery" and your "companions". It actually requires a fair level of development to prevent this: to stop your imagination from manufacturing fantasies and allow you to see where you really are rather than where you "unreally" are.
The more usual course of events is that a person dies with certain expectations and half-formed ideas, and emerges into the astral in a very confused and often apprehensive state. He/she is almost always met by others with whom long-term relationships have been formed. Typically they will be "dead relatives" or suchlike with similar beliefs, who will invite the newcomer to "enter heaven" with them. Groups of discarnate people gather together, their energies reinforce, and there are many such groups who have created their own heavens, hells, whatever, that can be quite convincing, at least for a time.
However, just as the physical body needs food for sustaining its structure, so too does the psychic need structure to sustain its shape. The psychic body of a newly "dead" person is an exact replica of the shape of the former physical, but after a while this shape starts to get "fuzzy round the edges", so to speak, and the same is true of all energy structures unless they are maintained by a person or entity of greater power and development than ordinary folk. Without such an entity, everything eventually starts to lose its shape and structure: the devout Muslim's virgins start to look decidedly patchy, the bowls of fruit lose colour and conviction, and Paradise starts to "fizzle out" around you. Most disappointing, and eventually alarming, which is why potent entities are so popular: they can sustain the convincing illusion of their "worshippers" far longer.
It is also why many older entities in the psychic realm are reported as simply ovoids of light: they've lost their original shape; some have no need of it, more potent ones can either "adopt" whatever shape they choose, or "cast an illusion" into the mind of the beholder.
This is why cyclic re-incarnation is necessary: without it, the psychic body would soon lose not only its shape but its inner structure. It's mind and perceptions would grow fuzzy, dim and meaningless, its consciousness would drift into imbecility, and in theory it would simply fade away. In practice the "drive for survival" and desire for sensory experience would have drawn it back into incarnation before that.
Another way of obtaining "structural energy" and maintaining "psychic shape" is by preying on the incarnate - literally sucking energy from them, but that's a separate, large, and rather unpleasant subject.
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