In the very last moments of life, when the body appears dead for all intents and purposes, everything you did, said, thought and experienced in the life that just ended will pass in perfect clarity before your inner vision. You will see and experience absolute justice and fairness of mostly everything that happened to you in life and how everything proceeded exactly as it should have done according to the unfailing laws of cause and effect, action and reaction, otherwise known as Karma.
You will essentially never die. The true “I” of your being will never die. The only part of you which will actually die when the change or transition occurs, commonly known as death takes place in the physical body…..it is nothing more than your outer shell anyways. Your astral body will eventually disintegrate when the very last particle of the dead physical body disintegrates. The Prana, or vitality life energy, otherwise known as Prana-Kundalini which now animates your physical body and keeps you in physical incarnation will return after death to the Universal Prana, or Life Force.
The Silver Cord that connects your physical body with its vitalizing Astral Double will break and this is what brings about real physical death. This severing causes such shock to the soul that the next part of the process will then take place unconsciously to yourself.
Unconsciously you will enter into the space of The Astral Plane. This realm is where most astral forms, excluding Angelic and Star People and other inter-dimensional beings or those who are Kundalini Awakened, go to process their deaths. This realm contains many tiers of varying vibratory rates. After we have shed our physical bodies most of us wake up in our Astral Bodies inhabiting the specific region in which the Astral Substance is vibrating at a rate compatible to the substance of our Astral Body. This is sometimes called the “Home Frequency”. During our lives here on Earth we determine our vibratory rate by our thoughts, actions, attitudes and spiritual understanding. Fear and resentment produce low vibrations. Devotion and compassion produce high vibration.
How long you will remain on The Astral Plane can be determined by various factors but it is primarily determined by the degree of lower attachments and material attractions that were characterized in the life you have just lived. What takes place there is the separation between your lower, sensual and material nature and your higher and more spiritual nature. The lower, more sentient and material side of your nature is not permitted to enter the Heaven State and so it needs to be cast off here in the intermediate state of the Astral Plane. The more or less materially and physically oriented the swifter this will happen. It may take only a matter of minutes or it may take several hours, days, weeks, months or, less frequently, even years-depending upon the preponderance of the lower nature over the higher nature.
You will not be consciously aware while all this is taking place. When the severing between the lower and the higher eventually occurs, this is known figuratively speaking as the “Second Death”. This may inevitably cause further shock to the soul an you will then enter into what is known as the “gestation state” for a period of profound rest and inner recuperation, akin to the deepest sleep you can presently imagine. It’s not known how long this might last for but in some cases it is far longer than we might think.
Meanwhile, the elements of your lower nature, now coalesced into a type of psychic shell, remain in the Astral Plane. Your soul-which could be considered the Ego, using that word in its true and literal sense-has moved on and joined itself with your higher and spiritual nature.
The Astral Shell or “form” remains in the Astral Plane for disintegration. It is soulless and any surviving intelligence is very basic and automatic. It has no individual consciousness of its own. It is just the amalgamation of the dregs of the lower nature from the lifetime just ended. It will remain on the Astral Plane until all its remaining passion and force completely wears out and then it will disintegrate entirely and cease to be. This may take weeks, months, years etc. again determined by the force and amount of material connection.
Most mental mediumship contact is with the Astral Shell. The shell has the ability to automatically repeat certain facts, details, characteristics and information which you possessed during your lifetime. There is no soul present in the Astral Shell. Only physical mediums may connect to the soul and this is ordained through Angelic realms. That is why direct channeling in nearly impossible to do because of the varying stages that a soul can be in. I could write quite a bit more here but safe to say that it is very important to allow someone to process their death before communication is attempted.
The real you will eventually emerge from the gestation state and enter into the “Heaven State”. Consciousness returns at the door of this stage. It is not a location or a plane but a “state of being”.
Ascension into Heaven, if that is the souls admission and choice, is a perfect state of the utmost bliss, peace and joy. There is not even the faintest shadow, hint or trace of sorrow, disappointment, suffering or pain there. In Heaven there is no memory or awareness of having died or even of there being such a thing as death. Bliss, peace and joy prevail unfailingly throughout.
The duration of a souls stay in Heaven will be in accordance with the amount of force of good that was accrued during the preceding lifetime. This is what sustains and prolongs the Heavenly experience. This will naturally vary greatly from person to person. For some, it could last a thousand years or even longer. Alternatively it may perhaps last only several hundred years or decades. Some souls return to Earth life after only a few years, primarily if the attraction for physical and material existence is still a strong force within their soul.
Some souls choose to stay in the Heavenly State. Others stay eventually draws to a close coinciding with the process of the reincarnation of the soul, from conception, through pregnancy and finally culminating in a rebirth on the physical plane. The soul has left a powerful karmic imprint on the earth and will now return into the rebirth cycle to learn and perfect those themes that still remain.
You will then have dropped and discarded forever the personality and persona of the previous lifetime and will be embarking upon a new lifetime, incarnated in, through, and as a brand new person, shaped and determined by your past lifetime and the future to come. And so the journey of ongoing inner evolution and unfoldment continues.
Death is not the end and birth is not the beginning. It is a circular processes of unfolding spiritual evolution.
