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Abstract: Esotericism is the science of the Divine and Spiritual Soul. Its view is from the deepest Subjectivity outward hence its wisdom is unlike that of conventional science. This paper will explore a few of the Esoteric Views on death, after death states, and elements to consider regarding after death communications. The ideas expressed pertain to Esotericism and are not generally considered by the public. They are being presented for consideration and understanding by individuals interested in the topic of death and its after-states.

Esoteric Wisdom includes in its scope a scientific comprehension of things related to God, Nature, and Man from an objective and subjective perspective. It deals preeminently with Universal Law and primary causes in their relation to effects in every department of Nature. It explores and explains the science of evolution from the perspective of Spirit. There are those that know, guard and are the preservers of this wisdom throughout the world cycles. This band of great souls who disseminate it to mankind at the appropriate cycles in time, have had diverse names throughout the ages. They are agents of a globally communicating spiritual brotherhood of humanity whose messengers and associates are continually working to serve, enlighten and elevate the mind and soul of humanity towards its great spiritual goal. They have contributed to all the arts and sciences of humanity for the sole purpose of raising the global mind to a self-conscious recognition and union with its Divine source, knowledge of the laws inherent in life, and the great purpose in the endless evolutionary cycle of the Spiritual Pilgrim. Whether working to express these ideas through any of the world’s disciplines, religious and mystical thought, sciences or arts, they all work for a common purpose and end. Together they represent a sacred school that holds spiritual sway, watches over, influences and initiates every true seeker of divine and eternal truths, serving humanity. This school is timeless, having been in existence as long as the consciousness of Man has been awoken. Its workers, or those that at times are influenced are many, yet there are those that come with a conscious awareness and clear purpose of things to be done. This Great School of Esoteric Truth and Spiritually Occult Wisdom pertaining to all life, is One, Universal, and here for the benefit of all Humanity.

No matter the global location, spiritual teachers East and West who have profoundly impacted the course of human history and evolution all belong to this
Eternal Tradition. They have all known, loved, and promulgated the secret esoteric teachings in a way that fits the inner and outer needs of the people and times. It is from such a great school that these few teachings come to enlighten and warm the heart, mind and soul of man and to rekindle reminiscence.

Using their teachings, we will explore death, after death communications and phenomenon.

The first requirement is to properly discriminate between the eternal, imperishable ground, and what is temporary and perishable. To accomplish this we will briefly explore the sevenfold division in Man and Nature.

There is only One True Principle, able to manifest itself variously. Similar to light passing through a prism, the rays of Spirit, when passing through the prism of its own reflection, become the seven derived principles in time and space. These principles reflect the divisions in the esoteric system designated spirit (atma), soul (buddhi), mind (manas), volition and desire (kama), vitality (prana), design body or matrix (astral), and the physical being. Each of these is specifically affiliated with a “plane” of nature. Each plane has its unique forces, energies, and states of consciousness, perception, egoity, sheaths and modes of interaction. In turn, each plane, as well as state of consciousness is considered seven fold, resulting in forty-nine basic divisions. All of these combined and interactively making up man.

Spirit, or Atma is One, eternal and impersonal. Being the substratum and force from and through which things arise, it is the secondary source of life and death, time and space. As such, it transcends death. Immortality represents the unbroken self-reflective consciousness and awareness of the idea of “self” held throughout the numerous phases and transitions traversed called life and death. Throughout time, spirit has been viewed as a unity, duality, and a trinity. As unity, it is one resting upon and within the absolute Deific “Substance Principle”. It is a most subtle and original ground, source and substratum underlying universal life and being. It belongs to no one or thing, yet is a part of each and all. As a duality, since spirit as unity cannot be perceived as manifest, it takes on a vehicle. This is a condition of substance more differentiated and diverse, generated through spirits own self-reflective substance and limitation. This idea of generation and limitation is expressed in the Bhagavad-Gita when Krishna states that he establishes this entire universe with but a portion of himself and yet remains separate. This generated ground and its sheath are called Spiritual Soul, or Buddhi.

Buddhi, regarding aspects, functions, and characteristics, is considered a type of force and matter, substance and consciousness, giving rise to its own unique archetypal structures, forms and vehicle. It is the means through which “spirit”, with its various functions, becomes manifested and appreciated in time, space and consciousness. Both spirit and soul are immortal, eternal and devoid of the idea of a conventional personality.

Personality begins as the ray emanated from mind or Manas, the third component of the trinity. Personality is not Manas, anymore than the ray from the sun is the sun. Yet this ray has essentially the same properties as its source. It is this ray, intimate with the nervous matter of the brain and nervous system that becomes “human consciousness”. And human consciousness, because it is the ray of Manas, has the potential to become one with the Divine and Eternal life, or of dissipating itself and getting lost forever among the particles of matter and form, becoming annihilated with form. It is this triad with particularly its ray that holds the possibility of a self-reflective conscious continuity for the human being, beyond physical life, once it has achieved a certain level of spiritual development. It is only that aspect of the personal energy of mind or manas, of the incarnating human being, that is able to rise, resonate, and either assimilate the nature of the spiritual soul, or be assimilated into that condition, in the highest spiritual sense, that

can partake of immortality and true conscious continuity. This then is the spiritual triad or

Importantly, Manas or Mind is the Source of the reincarnating consciousness energy, the cause of the reincarnating ego, ray or being. It is that state and condition of consciousness, which is able to carry the impressions of life times, becoming the karmic record of the incarnating being. Manas, is the source of that sense of I-ness experienced by an incarnated or disincarnated egoic entity. The “principle” Manas or mind is considered to be one of the most important in this system of study, such that its nature should be well understood to ensure a comprehension of the many “mysteries” that pertain to the spiritual science of life, death, meditation, and the inter-subjective states.

The perishable nature is the lower quaternary composed of volition and desire called kama, vitality and instinct called prana, a matrix or privation of form called astral body, and the physical body with its intelligence. These aspects are the lower reflections and culmination of all that has gone before. It is usually this lower perishable composite form of body, or astral form, that the incarnate consciousness mis-identifies with and people mistake for the real being or person.

The link that connects the triad with the quaternary arises in Manas, mind or the Spiritual Ego. Mind is dual in its simplest nature and triple regarding itself as a principle. Human mind is that aspect of the ray, which is Manasic energy. It moves towards incarnation in the lower quaternary, generating either a divine, bestial or common life in flesh. This incarnate soul of mind, having affinity with the brain, through the astral nature, has the ability to rise up, resonate with, and become assimilated into the divine or sink down into matter. This has been repeated, as it is a most important idea to meditate on and apply. Briefly, it is only the highest aspirations, thoughts, ideas, loves, impressions, desires, intents and altruistic, family or spiritual vows of the incarnate being, if found fit, due to the strength of their affinity for the higher spiritual soul, that can be assimilated into the imperishable nature, gaining so called “immortality”. It is neither the appetites, worldly concerns, mundane likes, dislikes, or strictly personal pursuits that are ever drawn by affinity to the higher states. These become the lower karmic germs or skandhas awaiting the incarnating entity, drawn to it by affinity, for the reaping of the fruits of its actions and the generation of effects.

Although from an esoteric perspective, there are seven principles, many schools of spiritual thought divide man differently. These divisions vary amongst the Buddhist, Vedantins, Yogi’s, Gnostics, Cabalists and Christian traditions to name a few. All of these systems are valid as far as they go and can be correlated with each other and Esotericism for greater clarity, understanding and practical use. For simplicity, it is usually the system of the Taraka Raja Yogi that is utilized. It is a four-fold system that embraces the idea of spirit working through the vehicles of the divinely spiritual soul, great mind consciousness, and the body (astral) of physiological function and action. Each of these has its plane(s) of action, operation and knowing.

Simply speaking, a sheath is a covering or vehicle of the soul. It is that in which the consciousness of the incarnating entity settles, permeates and mis-identifies itself. Speaking generically, there is the physiological sheath or body, the electromagnetic or astral, and the kama rupic or desire form (lower manasic) in which the pure incarnating

ray immediately covers itself, and at a certain stage is related to the “mayavi rupa” or vehicle of thought. The sheaths are the karmic and evolutionary bodies built up and organized from the substance of the underlying substratums. These are, loosely speaking

the outer or objective sheaths carrying inner or subjective awareness. They correlate with the lower four principle aspects of the soul and will be associated with the after death states. On the inner planes, there are in addition, the great vehicles of Mind and that of the spiritual soul affiliated with the Buddhic element. We will ignore these last two, as they are not associated with conventional death communications.

There are several types of out of body experience. The most common is that of the astral. In this case one has separated from and can see the physical body as object. It appears dull, and lifeless. Usually there is non-attachment to the personal form. Upon inspection, one may see a connecting “cord”, pulsating with life and of a characteristic color or hue. The “astral ego” which differs from the form, may alter its location entering the body and viewing the astral “form” above, or taking the position of the latter and viewing the body. Depending upon the “level of exit”, the cord may be attached through the umbilicus area, or emanate through the crown of the head. In the world’s sacred literature, there are other points of entrance and exit from the body.

Another OOBE relates to the kama-rupic and mayavi rupa or pure thought form. This is not “connected” to the body, and is made of “emergent mental” substance. It has the ability to “carry the consciousness” from place to place. When affected by desire it is not considered a pure thought form.

At times during near death experiences, an OOBE occurs and consciousness is but a “point” in space. Its movement, and awareness are confined to that point, but this does not negate its ability to traverse space and time as well as embrace or identify with forms.

Higher up the developmental scale of emergence, there are generically speaking, two other forms that allow for OOBE. These are the “Nirmanakaya and Sambhogakaya” forms or their equivalents. Based on the requirements for their formation, they are not the typical forms associated with conventional OOBE. Additionally, depending upon the system studied, other forms called the Augoeides, and Hiranyagarbha could also be included and identified with their own peculiar spheres of consciousness, perception and functionality.

These do not exhaust the types of vehicles that the soul uses for experience but are presented simply to indicate some of the variability and range of type noted in esotericism.

NDE’s are not always associated with states of consciousness approaching death. This is beginning to be realized regarding some of the research that is ongoing. Although the experiences can occur near the time of death they can be viewed in different ways. This becomes obvious when the experience of the light, the being, Higher Ego or Angel of light, the luminous field, the presence of relatives, and the tunneling can all be experienced at different times such as during meditation, sleep-dream, day visions and intimations, or states of deep relaxation.

Another way of viewing these experiences has to do with karma. Simply stated, as a

major quantum of karmic energy comes to an end, usually manifested in the form of an accident or catastrophic event, the life symbolically ends, but due to the integrated flow of karma a new line of karma becomes active. There is in a sense a death or ending, but

due to other productive and supportive karma being activated, the being does not die. This other line of karma is usually recognized by a change in personality, habits, interests, affinities and purpose that occur.

Another, rare event that occurs due to karmic relations, is that the being may in fact experience elements of the death state, and from that point on his body is affiliated with another soul, due to a vow made. This has been referred to in Esoteric teachings but little spoken about. It presents a great field for inquiry and investigation.

These are just a few ways to look differently at the occurrences we associate with near death experiences.

Realizing what is immortal and eternal, the rest is composite and will fall away as dust. We refer to the “Higher Triad”, spirit-soul-mind, as the immortal being, and its ray as the incarnating entity. It is this triad that exists for the duration of a great cycle of existence in its essential nature. This Higher Triad, called the Spiritual Ego, sheds a ray of thought, which becomes involved and often lost in matter. The Spiritual Ego no more exhaust itself in the ray of personality then mind does in generating a thought. The ray develops and evolves the idea of a biographical personality through memory and association, working through the sheaths it karmically acquires, becoming the physical being. The composite forms, which the Spiritual Ego’s ray uses for incarnation, having been put together, experience a falling apart, or death. These forms, in their particles, are groups of karmic lives and impressions made by the incarnated entity on each of the four lower planes, responsible for the future karmic effects of the soul.

Upon examination, we find that both the spiritual soul and mind, in some respects are composite. Yet because of the force and nature of their substance, their ability to resonate and become assimilated with spirit, these are considered, or have the potential to become immortal. It is up to the incarnated consciousness, to so live its life that the quantified rays of consciously entified awareness can be “lifted up” in its full, or partial integrity, assimilated and grafted to the memory of the spiritual trinity, partaking of immortality, or become annihilated in and with matter.

From this perspective, immortality is conditional for the incarnated ego and dependent upon its conscious choices, actions, will, and life. The affinities its energies have for the upper triad, versus the lower quaternary determine its immortal life or inevitable death. This makes the lower quaternary, the mortal and perishable being, the ground in which the seed of consciousness is planted for a personal life, covered by its sheaths, made of karmic “skandhas” (impressed lives). Understanding these aspects provides a basis for explaining most of the after-death communications encountered by the living.

Death involves the full, partial or non-dissolution of the egoic ray and its energies working through its vehicles to gain experience on the lower planes of existence. With the dissolution of a sheath, the elements of which it is made, saturated with the energy and force of the ego, return to the plane from which they were gathered, leaving the impressions they carried stamped upon the nature of the spiritual soul. This ensures that upon its reinvestment in matter, a continuity of the causal actions and just effects of such

impressions can occur guaranteeing that karmic law prevails, the universe remains just and evolution continues. For karmic law is the spiritual, moral, ethical, mental, psychical, and physical tendency of the universe to restore equilibrium, moving all beings to acquire self-reflective moral consciousness.

Death then is the dissolution of the lower quaternary with its aspects of the incarnating energy of personality having strong affinity for matter. In each sheath, the ego has been resident. Upon death, it frees itself over time from the attractions of a particular sheath and its associated plane of matter. It is ego that experiences conventional life and death, heaven or hell, and the intermediate subjective states of being due to its involvement in matter, not Spiritual Ego. It is ego that has the opportunity to graft itself and worthy experiences to the imperishable or dissolve with the elements. The sheaths then in their various degrees of dissolution and separation, become the postmortem entities we encounter under various conditions. These may have more or less of the consciousness force and energy affiliated with them, which provides the basis for the illusionary habitual and reflective intelligence evidenced in these experiences. It is important to realize that since it is the sheaths that connect the incarnated being to a plane or planes of matter and life, if that vehicle as a connecting link to a specific plane is severed and dissipated, it is impossible for the disincarnate entity to contact that state of matter and life. Thinking deeply over this, it becomes understandable why, when the physical body has loss connection with the being and is “dead”, brain dead, or otherwise, communication cannot occur using that instrument! If we apply this to the other sheaths and their dissipation, we will come to an interesting realization about communications with “spirit”. IT cannot come to us, but if there is affinity by love, and communication via resonance and assimilation, it is US that must “rise” to IT! Being complete sevenfold beings this is possible for the living that can resonate with every plane, not so for the dead who have neither self reflective consciousness nor the vehicles to resonate with other states. If we only rise to the plane upon which residue exists, it is only the content and impressions of that residue we encounter, not the true soul of the being.

Typically it is affinity, the magnetic and attractive power of unresolved desire and thought, or some powerful vow that draws a disincarnate entity towards an earthly contact, not conscious volition. This desire through affinity will be attracted to the person, with whom it is related, affecting their consciousness. However, we should realize that regardless of actions based upon affinity, unless the egoic entity has learnt to function consciously through one or another of the sheaths, learning how to use its instruments, that at the time of death and dissipation, the egoic ray is generally unconscious in respect to the planes of objectivity, being itself involved in the subjective experiences of its psychic and mental nature.

Other points of importance include the life review, type of death experienced, which we will review, and the life span of the sheaths. Each sheath or vehicle has an appointed life span, according to karma, and cannot dissolve due to cohesive force, prior to that time. The lifespan impacts what we can encounter and experience in our communications with entities after death. The average duration for normal death dissolution ranges from a few weeks or months to several years.

The most important point for consideration then is not whether postmortem communications and experiences occur, but what is it that a person contacts and communicates with? Is it only a “spiritual” being or could it be something else?

The general and broad scheme of post mortem transitions includes the following, death for the incarnate ego involving the cessation of the function of one or more of the vital organs and the lost of sensual consciousness (1^st death); The dissolution of the astral body after the severance of the electromagnetic cord and “bowl” (2^nd death); The intermediate purgatorial and purification state where soul separates from the lower triad leaving the upper quaternary (3^rd); The selection of the experiences worthy of the “Devachanic” state called pre-gestational state (4^th ); The discarding and separation of the energetic residue, the kama rupa, saturated and colored by earthly consciousness, desires, passions, instincts, and memories (shell, devoid of conscience, morality and intellect – 5^th death); The experience of the Devachanic or “heavenly” state (gestational state), by the spiritualized aspect of the disincarnate ego (6^th); The impressions made upon the “Spiritual Ego” and psychic exhaustion of egoic thought (7^th); The preparation for another cycle of incarnation for the balancing out of karma (selection of skandhas, parental conference, and pre life vision based on karma), after which reincarnation occurs. There are two additional stages for equally “evil” souls, which we will refer to shortly.

How a person dies also impacts the post mortem states. Natural karmic death occurs when the astral ego, astral body, and physical wear out together at the appointed karmic time. This is like death from old age. If the person is murdered, or dies in an accident, death occurs before their karmic time and only affects the physical body. This leaves the astral body functional, drawn by affinity, and the astral ego involved in a state of consciousness that typically is consumed in subjectivity. However, if for reasons of severe lust, hatred, revenge, or some other powerful emotion the astral ego retains rudimental consciousness of earthly attractions through its astral, the ego or its sheaths can be drawn to negatively influence others, obsess, infect, and in extreme cases possess a living being that has affinity and sensitivity to it. The “good, sleep quietly” in a beneficent state of consciousness, until the time arrives for the pre-gestation and gestation periods.

Sane suicides are decidedly different. They willfully destroy the souls vehicle in an attempt to escape the karmic effects of a life. As their astrals are not dead, they find themselves in a state of consciousness and on a plane of matter where the very deeds, desires, and events they sought to escape are vividly, intensely and repeatedly marched before their mental view and felt in their nature. Being somewhat aware, they are often drawn to sensitives to either seek solace, or drawn to try to live vicariously through them. Theirs, it is said, is a terrible life, not death. (This doesn’t apply to suicide during mental illness.) Having associated intimately with such sensitives, and having created a temporary repulsive force between the Spiritual Ego of their being and the personal by the willful taking of their life, they live in a spiritual void, lacking the influence and light of their Spiritual Ego and risking its lost. If they tolerate this death-life during the gradual exhaustion of the very states they were trying to avoid by killing themselves, without promiscuous associations with sensitives, then at the appointed time, they will experience the pre-gestational and gestational states. If they have exhausted themselves by promiscuous affiliation with sensitives and mediums, expending their egoic energy, there will be little left of them to experience the gestational state, and they become lost souls, incubi and succubi.

Beings who are truly evil having severed the connection between themselves and the

Spiritual Ego during life, have drawn all the mental and spiritual energies of the soul life down into that of the earthly mind. They are filled with the highest selfishness, desire and vices. At the time of death, they are drawn towards conscious suffering and annihilation. The states that accommodate these beings, and those on the path to a similar fate, are avitchi (hellish suffering) and the sphere of annihilation. Yet because of the stealing of the “spiritual fire” so to say, they exist as powerful maleficent forces for some time. These are the true psychic vampires.

Understanding how the spiritual being disengages from its sheaths to return “home”, it is possible to identify a number of entities besides the spiritualized ego with which one may unknowingly communicate. Additionally there are unconscious abilities in living beings that contribute to the experiences of post mortem communications.

Summarizing some of the entities we have the astral body of deceased or living beings; classes of elementals which are centers of force in nature; shells or forms devoid of the spiritual ego, which is in the Devachanic state; shells with aspects of desire affinity memory and residual intellect (kama rupas); shades being those murdered, or dying by accident whose spiritual triad still remains connected; sane suicides, that have created a repulsive force between the Spiritual Ego and themselves for rejecting life; thought forms or mayavi rupas; entities from different planes – unconscious resonance; entities that have usurped the spiritual energy and force of intellect from the eternal triad (elementaries) and are conscious willful and maleficent, eventually doomed to conscious annihilation; and communication with the spiritual ego in devachan.

Considering causes and conditions for communications arising from the living, Esotericism suggests that before we attribute all communications to disincarnate spiritual beings, we first exhaust causes dependent upon the living psychological being. The following is a partial list of such causes.

Astral ego, completely involved, partially out, fully outside of the body; astral body (ies); elemental forces; elementaries; preconscious, conscious and unconscious mental forces; psychic abilities; physical memory; the astral, etheric, and akashic fields/lights; entities associated with the living; images of the deceased in the photosphere of the living person; “aura” of those involved acting as a lens or focus; mediums and sensitive persons present; influences and impressions, pictures, sensations, currents of information in the astral light or fields of those present; rapport and assimilation of vibrations; the higher nature or living personal ego; dreams, trance and visions; transfigurations; resonance with the Spiritual Ego; resonance with the deceased ego in devachan;

Many of the subjective communications, when driven by the highest purity and love are representative of truth and fact. Communications in general (although they might better be called encounters) can be divided into those that are objective, subjective and partake of both.

Objective: Seeing ghosts or apparitions, colored spheres or objects, hauntings, sounds or voice of the deceased, rapping’s, automatic writing, smells and touches, tastes, visions,

poltergeist activity, slate writing, manipulation of objects, electronic voices, computer writing, telephonic communication and precipitations. Impressions and influences can affect the outer sensorial or the inner astral senses and these later project outward the

appearance of objective objects.

Subjective: visions with eyes closed, in a trance, Hypnagogic or hypnapompic states, dreams, perception of events in non dream but during altered or non ordinary states, during transitional states, sense of obsessions or possessions, communication of information, knowledge of personal facts, sense of a presence.

Both; Transfigurations, speaking in the voice of another, communications, possessions, projected images.

Elements that skew correct transcription, translation, reading and communication of messages include the cognizing principles that function differently in each sheath and need to be developed; Accurate recording of vibratory resonance or vibratory variations in each sheath; Differentiating between mental creations, thought forms perceived, astral or other images, the living and the dead, the “real being” versus the personality; Proper transcription and transmission of the vibratory impressions through the planes and sheaths (like light through different media); Proper impression of the vibration into the brain of the receiver; Suspension of wishful thinking, desires, fears, and memories that might alter, suppress or modify the original impressions; Correct interpretation of “the language of the soul”; Preconceived cognitions, beliefs, theories, ideas, fancies and expectations; entities faking a personality.

In brief, living beings entering this domain are usually untrained in the processes that guarantee accurate recording, transcription, transmission, understanding and expression of impressions, utilizing the spiritual, mental, psychic and astral “senses” after resonance, assimilation and becoming has occurred.

Although some beings have an intuitive ability to communicate, to do so with full awareness and scientific reproducibility requires an understanding of the philosophy; perfecting the attention and sustaining concentration; discipline, purification and control of the senses and mind; morality and ethics; knowledge of planes and states; resonance and rapport differing for each plane; recording; assimilation; repression of ones own and predominance of “other” vibrations; proper transcription through planes; correct interpretation, meaning, understanding and expression on the physical plane.

In conclusion, we will simply say after-death states and consciousness are but a minute portion of that universal science, the Esoteric Philosophy and its application to the Science of the Soul.

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Eugene Jennings, M.D., board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. He is currently employed as a Medical Director for a Residential Treatment Facility and maintains a private practice in the Pennsylvania area. He treats children through adults, specializing in eclectic psychotherapies, psychopharmacology, Brain wave training or Neuro-biofeedback, and emphasizes spiritual integration, practice and development while working through everyday challenges, life crises and mental illness.