The Principles Involving Death, Transformation, and Our Journey through the Afterlife

Posted On December 8, 2023 / Written by Dr. Linda Gadbois

Death and what happens to us after we die, is one of the greatest concerns and mysteries there are. There’s probably no greater fear than the type born out of a desperate sense of uncertainty and not knowing, where we contemplate death as either punishment or reward for how we lived our life and what resulted from our own actions and deeds, or as a form of personal annihilation. Yet death, like life, is a fundamental part of an even greater process of growth, development, and transformation. All life throughout the entire universe is formed, sustained, and transmuted through the parent Law of Polarity, where opposite aspects of the same idea and force (equation) interact in forming a single unit that’s greater than both while also encompassing and being comprised of both. Life and death are no exceptions, because they’re ‘polar opposites of the same thing’ and are complementary in nature, which means they’re paradoxical and appear to contradict each other, where one is postulated as a beginning and the other an ending, rather than viewed as a continuation of the same evolutionary growth process as it moves through different stages.

Whatever model we use as a means of understanding something determines what we see and how we interpret what we see to give it meaning. So, in order to contemplate an idea from a new perspective that will breed a new way of understanding it, we have to start by building a new model of it. All higher knowledge comes as an understanding of universal principles which form the very fabric for what we perceive as reality, and is communicated through the universal language of symbols, metaphor, numbers, and allegories, which require us to use the capacities of our higher mind to attain. When we look for someone to tell us what the truth is, and we form a belief around it by accepting it as our truth, we’re operating from our lower mind. When we use our ability to discern the truth through rational thought and reasoning, where truth comes through our own realizations and conclusions about things, we’re operating from our higher mind. Higher knowledge requires you to exercise intuition, not as something that comes to you automatically from what seems like an outside source or entity, but something you develop internally through your own ability to comprehend it in a rational manner. We only ‘learn’ (live-n-earn) through experience and developing ideas internally as a virtual reality turns them into a ‘direct experience’, allowing us to apprehend the knowledge they possess while also forming the perceptual lens necessary for experiencing them as a part of our outer world.

In this article I’m not going to convey what happens when we die as a ‘belief’ or by telling a story about it based on an opinion handed down to us by another, or by ‘researching near-death experiences’ and recapitulating what’s already been said, but rather by discussing the universal principles involved in a way that can be understood in the practical sense, allowing you to draw your own conclusions. Part of the process for discernment comes from what’s called the Law of Correspondence and Analogy, and the algebraic method, which basically states that we can come to know the ‘unknown aspects of any equation (overall process) by how they exist in relation to the known aspects of the same equation’. Universal laws and principles operate in a consistent and congruent fashion on all levels and scales that make up a greater whole. When you understand the basic process and operation of a universal principle, you can apply it intuitively to every aspect of reality, no matter how big or small, connecting the visible with the invisible through a ‘chain of association’ that propagates spontaneously in your imagination. You can literally ‘tune into’ the unseen forces that underlie and operate silently in forming what we experience as a greater reality, as well as the inner nature and soul of all material beings. By understanding the principles that govern ‘life’, you can also form an equivalent understanding of how those same principles operate in death, because life and death are opposite aspects of the same overall process of ‘becoming’.  

In order to consider a new possibility with an open mind, we have to start by setting our religious conditioning and current belief systems aside, where we’re not using them as a means for validating, contrasting, or arguing against ideas, and simply be willing to consider a whole new way of looking at the same idea based on its own merits. We must start this inquiry, like all inquiries, by looking at what we have come to call ‘life’, as opposed to what we call ‘death’ from a different perspective. All words and terms that represent ideas and processes mean something different to each person using them, and so we have to begin by examining the terminology being used. When viewed from a higher plane in which life as an ‘active conscious force’ originates, what we experience as living comes by ‘entering into’ and ‘being contained within’ the realm of death. We must consider the possibility that we’ve misunderstood what the term ‘life’ actually means, and likewise, what the term ‘death’ means in relation to life.

Our mind, soul, and spirit are purely energetic and invisible in nature (comprised of subtle energy) and are therefore alive eternally. You can’t ‘kill or destroy energy’, it simply transforms and takes on a new form of existence. It’s only when we ‘enter into’ (inhabit) and take on a ‘physical existence’ (experience ourselves as being our body) that we also experience death, because it’s only our physical body that dies, along with the experience of reality attained through our body. It’s only the material world of the physical body that ‘passes away’, and it does so when the higher aspects of the mind and spirit are dislodged and separate from it. The mind and spirit are what generates, regenerates, holds together as a cohesive system, and gives ‘life’ (activity) to the body. Our mind and spirit ‘are’ the life of the body and is what forms our experience of the outer world through our ability to perceive it, and our perception comes as a ‘mental projection’ formed through the energetic structure of our mind, called our paradigm or model of the world. In this sense, all perception is really self-perception, where we only perceive what’s correlated with our own nature in everything else.

The body and all material substances are passive and magnetic in nature, and only possesses the consciousness it absorbs and assimilates from the atmosphere and environment around it. The individual mind and soul, which are synonymous terms that refer to the same energetic essence, are active in nature, and contain an archetypal pattern as a self-made image of itself, along with a self-assembling mechanism that orders and organizes its own physical body and outer world, providing it with an outer garment and physical house or vehicle. This idea is commonly expressed as the body being the temple, and our mind and spirit being the ‘dweller within our own temple’. When the mind and soul leave the body, all activity (which is life) stops, the cellular structure of the body is no longer held together in an active state of constant regeneration and it begins disintegrating, eventually returning to the very substance it’s made from, which is the clay of the Earth’s essence.

The term ‘soul’ refers to an energy field formed out of ‘memory’, which is archetypal in nature, and used to create a physical form comprised of a dynamic formula of attributes, qualities, and characteristics that imbue it with a distinct set of natural behaviors. Form and how a system is energetically organized always determines how it functions and what operations it naturally undergoes in an automatic fashion. What makes this process confusing for us is that we are multidimensional in nature, and not only possess dual aspects of the mind, called the conscious and subconscious, but also possess two souls, an animal soul associated with our subconscious, and a divine soul, associated with our conscious mind. What we refer to as the ‘instinctual field’ of the Earth, which is contained within its energy field and atmosphere, is the Earths memory of itself that gives life to everything that’s made of its essence and is sustained by it for a predetermined amount of time. Every living creature and conscious being has a predetermined lifespan as an allotted amount of time, and when its life-energy is spent, its time is up, and it dies a natural death. The aspect of the mind associated with the Earths soul is the subconscious, which is also called the ‘collective unconscious’ of Nature, and the mass consciousness or group mind of humanity.

While we exist in material form and as a part of the Earths reality and atmosphere, we’re ‘combined and energetically joined’ with a complementary animal body (we’re mammalian), making us a ‘multidimensional being’. Not in the theoretical sense that requires you to believe in what you can’t directly experience, but in the realization that we have two aspects of both mind and soul that work harmoniously together in producing a single reality ‘in’ and ‘through’ which we experience ourselves, and we fashion ourselves according to our own self-produced experiences. We’re the only animal and being on the planet that has what’s called the ‘conscious aspect’ of the mind, which is what makes us ‘self-aware’ and bestows us with the ability to think, reason, and create. We’re aware of ourselves as being separate from everything else, and function mentally to create our own experiences based on how we think about things and run habitual internal processes that stem from our formative conditioning, which functions as a form of instinct that’s emotionally driven. All our natural behaviors that result from our personality, genetic makeup, and family or group dynamic, are of our subconscious mind, which means we do them automatically without thinking about them or being directly aware of what we’re doing in the objective sense.

Our self-awareness comes in our fundamental ability to think about things and evaluate them from a rational perspective of reasoning and logic, where we generate a series of possibilities as the basis for making decisions, which, when acted on serve to transform habitual patterns and provide us with new ways of experiencing ourselves. Our ability to think and form ideas into possible realities on the inner planes of our imagination, and then ‘perceive’ the outer reality of our thoughts as a means of experiencing ourselves through our own mental creation, is an attribute and function of our higher mind, which is immortal and eternal. Using the power of our conscious mind we project a personalized version of reality, produce how we experience it by the story we form out of it, and then translate our experiences into memory of our own creation. Our higher mind and self is the part of us that never fully incarnates into the body, and resides on the outskirts or higher, all-encompassing level, and is the sole creator of our entire life and material experience. This aspect of our mind is ‘born in the body’ as a means of being centered in its own creation and experiencing it from ‘within it’ as a fundamental part of it.

The ‘conscious aspect of the mind’, which is the part of us that thinks, judges, discriminates, and shapes how we perceive reality through our thoughts about it, is born in the body as a ‘seed’ that’s initially dormant, and begins growing and developing fully within the body as an awareness of ourselves. This is the aspect of our mind that’s creative in the most basic sense of creating ourselves by how we think about things. The conscious aspect of our mind, which is the part of us that’s immortal, grows and develops systematically within our body in four stages of seven-year increments. This is very easy to recognize by simply observing a child’s development or remembering back on your own development. A child is born fully within their subconscious mind and personality, and around the age of seven or eight the conscious mind begins its initial stage of development. This is when the child begins ‘thinking for themselves’, begins problem solving, imagining realities born out of their thoughts, and combining thoughts with emotions to form their own ‘memories’, not of actual situations and circumstances, but of how they experienced those situations and what happened based on what they told themselves about it. Our conscious mind is the part of us that thinks by telling stories about things that give them meaning. This part of us is the author of our own life story, as well as the director, producer, and main character.

Our higher mind is the part of us that’s truly creative in the most basic sense of the idea. Our lower mind is the part of us that’s group oriented, lacks an awareness of itself as separate from the group, and acts based on impulse, emotional triggers, and by repeating patterns and behavioral dynamics formed out of our conditioning. This part of us is ‘programmed’ through a primary hypnotic state and simply repeats whatever its been programmed with in an automatic fashion. Our lower mind operates out of a ‘system of beliefs’ and ‘set of rules’ laid down for us regarding moral behaviors, because it doesn’t have the ability to judge, discriminate, reason, or intelligently utilize discernment as a means for making its own decisions about what to do and how to be.

This part of us functions through the herd mentality and needs to be told what to think and do, is compliant and agreeable, and goes along with whatever the group it’s associated with does. Our subconscious is governed and directed by the ‘willful’ aspect of our higher mind, or the will of others being projected onto us in an authoritative, parental, or intimidating manner, and ‘dies’ with the body it was an extension of. Our lower, instinctual and emotionally driven mind is mortal, in the sense that when we die it stays or returns to the collective unconscious of the Earths memory. Whatever part of us is created by others, our environment, and as an offspring of the group mind we’re associated with, stays within the Earths atmosphere and is absorbed back into the instinctual field it was formed out of.

It’s only our higher mind, which is willful and self-creating that’s immortal in the sense that it transcends the Earths magnetic field and returns to the plane of its origin when leaving the body. This part of our soul is ‘self-made’ and is comprised of our own self-produced memory as an original and unique ‘archetype’ of our own making. When we become self-aware while in our body, realizing that we’re not our body, but was born into our body as the means for experiencing ourselves within our own life creation, we take on our true identity as a self-made immortal being and can begin developing ourselves in an intentional and deliberate manner. Our lower self is our personality, formed through our genetic makeup and the role we played in our family dynamic, whereas our higher mind, born within the body, where it perceives itself as being the body, forms our identity, which comes as a natural outgrowth of our personality.

We form a ‘sense of ourselves’ based on our thoughts about things, what we tell ourselves that make everything mean something about us, and by how we associate and identify with our own story. This part of us, which shapes itself through its own material construct, only dies with the body when it mistakenly builds its identity out of its own mental projection, without realizing that’s what it’s doing. This is what’s commonly referred to as the ‘false ego’, a product of mistaken identity, where we shape ourselves (form a perception of ourselves) based on what we look like, our position and role in society, our material possessions, financial status, relationships, race, culture, and so on, which naturally dies with the body and the circumstances it made itself out of, and remains eternally within the atmosphere (astral field), instinctual plane, and collective unconscious of the Earth. Whatever we build ourselves out of, we bond ourselves to energetically, and need in order to know who we are. This is where we form the idea that dying means annihilation, where we lose our sense of self as an individual and are absorbed back into the group mind of humanity. When we build ourselves out of our mortal nature, we remain within the animal realm when we depart the body as an immortal being whose trapped, so to speak, in an mortal body, and eventually lose our connection to our immortal source altogether.

This idea of the active mind being born within the passive body of the group mind is represented symbolically by the Madonna and male child or Son. The feminine aspect, associated with the material body, gestates and gives birth to its own masculine aspect, associated with the mind and spirit, and it’s the ‘Son’ that ‘rises’ to a higher plane after death, and is born again in the heavenly realm of divine beings. The conscious mind is represented by the ‘Sun’, which is what gives life to the material world while serving to fortify and sustain it. The feminine aspect represents physical form and the material world, and is represented by the Moon, which has no light of its own, and only acts to reflect the light of the Sun.  The subconscious is the mental aspect and substance of the entire material world (builder of material forms), and the masculine aspect represents the mind that grows within and inhabits the material world as an outer reflection of itself. This is the divine aspect of our being that’s self-governed, self-perpetuating, and self-sustaining. It’s only this part of our mind and soul that’s immortal in the sense that it continues to be conscious, self-aware, and creative beyond the body and the material world which it acted to construct.

Once our higher mind separates from our physical body, it’s no longer combined with anything and exists in an eternal state of whatever we created and maintained while alive. We only change states and develop ourselves in new ways by combining mentally with new elements. All growth and development come from association and blending mentally with new fields of information (same attributes and qualities developed to different degrees and potencies), forming an interference pattern, which modifies our current pattern through a process of stimulus-response, action-reaction, cause and effect, and through the dynamic interaction of polarities. Whatever state we cultivate and consistently maintain throughout our life, becomes the state we exist within when we separate from the body. If we’ve created hell on earth, so to speak, by being consumed with anger, hatred, greed, sensuality, jealousy, resentment, and selfish agendas, then we reside in that same ‘hell’ when we die, without the ability to change it.

Our reality as an experience of ourselves is created by our mental state, and our mind transcends our physical body at death. Likewise, if we cultivate heaven while on earth, where we’re consumed with joy, peace, prosperity, selflessness, detachment, and compassion for others (which is really for ourselves in them), then we reside within that same state when we depart the Earth. What’s of the Earth stays with the Earth, and what’s of the heavens, stays with the heavens. We reside fully within our own creation on both levels, with the only real difference being that while we’re combined with a physical body and outer world that’s an extension of our body, we can act on ourselves to transform ourselves by embodying different qualities and intentionally developing different parts of our character and morality.

The Principles of Descending into Life and Ascending into the Afterlife  

Let’s look at the principles involved in both the life and death process of transformation, as a cycle or circuit that operates fundamentally through polarity. Just as our mind and human energy field is electromagnetic in nature, and expands and contracts at the same time, pushing apart while simultaneously pulling together, creating a form of 3-dimensional hologram or continuum, our entire material world is formed as a mental projection of our higher mind, which is singular and self-contained on its own plane. This ‘return’ to a singular state is the realm we enter when we die. The higher mind is unformed, meaning its pure mind and not made of substance or confined to a particular physical body, and in order to ‘know itself’, it has to be able to ‘perceive itself’ as another or greater whole, while telling itself a story about the meaning of its own existence. In order to do this, it takes on a physical body, located at a particular point within an even greater whole as a 6-dimentional construct (space-time continuum), where it plays out a life cycle formed out of a particular life theme, forming experiences of itself while simultaneously shaping itself according to its own mental projection.

The outer world is shaped through our perception of it as an outer reflection of our own mental model. This idea is represented symbolically by the Monad, formed as a small concentrated (black) circle at the center of a greater circle of the same shape and nature (symbol of the Sun), and the Dyad, which is formed by the Monad dividing itself into two complementary aspects (polarities), forming an outer image of itself as the means of perceiving itself through its own image as a mental projection. As the Monad regenerates itself to produce an outer shell as a mirror image of itself on a larger (outer) scale, it forms thoughts about itself through its own outer projection, forming experiences of itself that it then translates into memory. This memory forms an astral body of light on the inner (higher) planes of the mind, which serves to form a reflection on the outer (lower) planes as a corresponding material formation.

A ‘single plane’ is formed by connecting polarized aspects (mental spheres) of the same inner nature, comprised of the same energetic essence, using a horizontal line that connects what appears as an ‘outer with the inner’ of the same class and type. The horizontal line that connects polarized aspects on the same plane, also forms the line that separates and then combines those same polarities on parallel planes, forming an upper and lower level as a ‘range of vibration’ that maintains an inner and outer image of the same thing on different scales and magnitudes. On the higher level it’s purely mental and forms the archetypal matrix of the entire lower plane as a frequency, and the lower level is formed as a single body located within the greater whole, experiencing it from the inside out. The upper and lower are contained within the inner and outer of the same overall plane. Just as the inner and outer are reflections and projections of each other on different scales and levels, the upper and lower are formed in the same way, where we’re located at the center of our own projection, experiencing it from within it as a fundamental part of it. The inner and outer, upper and lower, are holographic images of each other, where we exist as both the part and the whole at the same time. This can seem somewhat confusing because we tend to only think of ‘ourselves’ as our body and personality, rather than as the entire outer world perceived through our body as an extension of it.   

The diametrical configuration of the inner and outer forming a corresponding upper and lower level of the same idea, is represented symbolically by the Triad, symbol of the 3-fold nature of the mind and soul, which gestates (takes shape) within the ‘universal womb’ of the Dyad (parent principle) as a ‘thoughtform’ that forms the embryo of the etheric body as coalesced substance that vibrates at the same frequency, acting to birth and give life to its physical equivalent (offspring) on the (parallel) lower level of the same plane. The Triad projects/reflects its own mental image downward forming a diamond shape (daimon), which, when turned at a 90-degree angle (polarized), forms a square or Tetrad, the symbol used to represent the material world. Each aspect of the higher mind formed as a projection of itself is symbolized by a Triad, where two polar aspects combine in forming a third element as an exaltation or greater formation (superposition) as a single unit or coherent mental construct. The inner and outer, and upper and lower, are formed out of the same archetypal matrix on different scales and levels at the same time, allowing us to experience our ‘self’ (the memory of our own mental model) through what appears to be another and a greater, all-inclusive outer world that reflects back to us our own mental creation. The higher mind provides the seed and ovum for producing its own material body and outer world, and then births itself within its own outer formation as a means of experiencing itself and coming to know itself through and as its own creation.      

This dynamic process of becoming through our own mental projection as a form of self-emergence, is represented beautifully through the diagram of the Qabalah Tree of Life, as a movement down the planes of existence from a purely mental concept into a physical correspondence. We come into life with a predetermined lifespan and life plan, and actively live out our dream of reality and then, when our life energy is exhausted and our body dies, we reverse polarity, and are absorbed back up the same planes we descended from. As we ascend, we undergo the same process in reverse, where we shed our identification with our own creation and lower nature and return to the state we originated from as a divine being (archetype of our own making). As we descend the planes of existence from a purely spiritual state to a physical one, we combine with an animal body and take on instinctual qualities that render us unconscious in the most basic sense of the idea. As we enter into an unconscious state of an animal existence, we suffer from a basic form of amnesia and lose all awareness of who we are and our true origins as divine beings, bestowed with a conscious mind and the ability to develop ourselves in a self-aware manner. We become imprisoned in an illusion of our own making without realizing we have the means necessary to free ourselves.

The idea of spiritual awakening is to wake up in the midst of our own dream, realize we’re dreaming, and learn how to use our own mind and will to create ourselves in an intentional and deliberate manner. When we don’t regain a sense of our true identity and spend our life a product of others and society, or we’re taught to believe we’re something we’re not, and we become thoroughly identified with our animal nature instead of stepping fully into our divine nature, we act to trap ourselves in the prison of an unconscious existence, where we’re created by others and our environment, and become a product of our genetic makeup. When we lack an awareness of our true power to create, we become a slave to society and a mindless worker for those who exercise their higher will in governing us. When this happens, we still maintain our immortality, up to a certain point, while losing our ability to consciously develop and advance ourselves to a higher level of existence and continue to incarnate in an unconscious existence, until we lose our immortality altogether.

Vibration and Constructing a Polarized Holographic Image

This same process of a single entity dividing (regenerating) and doubling (multiplying) as a means of producing polar-opposites (electromagnetic forces) whose interaction (movement between poles set apart from each other) constructs a holographic image of itself which exists simultaneously as both a part and the whole that births and contains the part within it, is how our higher, universal soul produces and then projects polar aspects of itself into a lower plane of density. The interaction of polarities forms the basis for vibration, where the same energetic force as a mental state expands away from itself while withdrawing back into itself at the same time, creating space as a dimension and space-time continuum. Time, as we know it, only exists within a 3-dimensional construct as movement from one extreme or point to another within the same dimension, and when the dimension collapses on itself due to the conscious mind exiting the material world, time ceases to exist. Time is only relevant while we’re incarnate in a physical body. All coalesced material formations vibrate at a particular frequency which contains both a holographic model or 3-dimensional pattern (thoughtform), and a self-assembling mechanism (will) at the same time.

These two aspects, which seem different and play different roles in creating the same mental construct, are actually different states that produce different functions of the same force. All organized fields of light (material forms) are formed through polarization, which is the activity and movement created through the interaction of opposite extremes of the same frequency (thing). While we tend to think of an electromagnetic field as being composed of a pair of forces, one electric, the other magnetic, in reality they’re one force that switches back and forth between opposite states and orientation, while simultaneously moving in a spiraling or circular motion as a semi-closed circuit that’s primarily self-contained as a single unit. The interaction of complementary forces constructs a coherent matrix of light as an outer shell that’s spherical in shape (energy always curves back on itself), within which correlated activity born out of the ‘same nature’ and frequency spontaneously emerges and comes alive with activity. On its own plane of origin, it exists in unity as a single force that isn’t combined and resides in a pure and unadulterated state which functions primarily as a closed system that’s self-perpetuating and self-sustaining. When it combines energetically with its own complementary element on a parallel plane, forming a mirror image of itself on that plane as both an inner and outer reality, it operates as a semi-closed system that interacts inwardly with its own outer projection, developing and evolving itself through the realizations formed.

The problem that comes with being formed out of two different minds and natures, one purely mental while the other purely physical, is that one is self-creating, energetic in essence and therefore immortal, while the other is a product of the Earths substance and environment and is created as a part of the group mind. One is comprised of the qualities and attributes that serve to form characteristics, while being unformed and self-determined in nature, while the other is formed by the characteristics of our genetic makeup, environmental conditioning, and how we’re shaped by others through our upbringing. Our conscious mind is what you can also think of as our ‘middle or medium mind’, which exists between the higher (superconscious) and lower (subconscious) levels of the mind, which are too far apart in vibration and moral essence to ever bleed together or combine through resonance, and vibrates at a frequency that’s ‘in-between’ them and is what acts to ‘join them together’. This is the creative part of our mind and soul, which can draw on the lower regions of the higher, archetypal plane of deities, as well as the upper region of the lower archetypal plane of Nature, as the means of shaping ourselves. This part of us, which is the only part we’re actively aware of while incarnated in an unconscious animal body, has the potential to be either immortal or mortal, based on which plane we draw on as the means of creating our identity.

Two Stages of Death and Our Journey through the Afterlife

When we depart from our physical body, our etheric body, which served as the blueprint and builders map for our material existence, stays with the body, along with the prana or life energy allotted to the body as its lifespan, while our higher mind separates from it and moves into a higher plane that’s purely mental in nature. This process of initial separation of mind and body is called our ‘first death’. The part of us that’s purely mental and emotional, and within our ability to manage and regulate, ascends to the middle plane of the conscious mind. Here we experience what’s called our ‘second death’, which is what also forms our journey through the afterlife. When our higher soul begins separating from our physical body, a ‘life review’ occurs within a few seconds, which is the summation of all our major life experiences formed into a single memory, which determines the life principle (theme and character) for our succeeding lifetime. While in the middle plane we’re still combined as having two parts to our nature, one formed through our emotional, instinctual nature, and one formed through our rational, intelligent nature. We’re still part animal and part god at this level, but the only part of us that can ascend to the highest plane, which vibrates at a level that’s too high for the unconscious (animal) to attain, is the part of us that has been cleansed of our animal nature all together and returned to a pure and virtuous state. Whatever we use to shape ourselves and build our identity around, determines the process we undergo as a means of purifying ourselves at this level. The division that takes place on this level is based exclusively on conscience, morality, and intelligence.

 It’s here, in the middle state that we experience our second death, where our earthly nature remains within the earth, and our divine nature ascends to the plane of the universal mind and soul. This process of division is what forms the two states commonly referred to as ‘heaven and hell’. Any part of us that’s formed out of our lower nature continues to play out in its own domain, without the interference, direction, or buffer from our conscious mind. Keep in mind that heaven and hell are not places or destinations, they’re mental states. Once we leave our body, we no longer exist in material form and reside exclusively in our own mind as the mental state we cultivated while in our physical body. We’re no longer combined with anything, so there’s no stimulus, outside force, or interference going on. We’re 100% in the reality of our own mental state. So even in death, as in life, we’re always our own creator and experiencing our own mental projection. The higher mind, which is moral, noble, and creative in nature, likewise, plays out that same mental state while also living out any unfulfilled dreams of that lifetime. This is the creative, willful aspect of our mind that functions through the imagination to fashion the seeds of its own manifestations, and it continues to function out of that same state devoid of and no longer contaminated by the emotional, instinct driven mind.

The astral shell of the lower mind remains in the Earths atmosphere as the life memory of the deceased soul and is the aspect of the soul that psychics and mediums usually pick up on while mistaking them for the conscious soul of the deceased person, which is no longer present or accessible from within the Earths atmosphere because it no longer has a physical essence or aspect. The astral shell always stays close to its physical body or in the place where they spent most of their time, and gradually disintegrates with the body or once its life energy is fully exhausted. The astral shell and the memory contained within it, is what’s occasionally seen as an apparition, ghost, or a smokey, wispy light that congregates and then dissipates. Souls who are mostly comprised of an animal and perverse or evil nature, eventually lose their connection to their immortal source, are no longer able to ascend, and become what’s called ‘wandering or lost souls’ who gradually disintegrate by being absorbed into the Earths atmosphere, where they lose their individuality and become an intrinsic part of the group mind of humanity.

The Process of Initiation

The same principle of transformation as the process that governs physical death, also governs and lays out the process necessary for undergoing and self-administering your own transformation while still in your body as a means of preparing for death. The Occult secret in overcoming death, doesn’t have anything to do with living forever in your current physical body. All living biological forms are temporary and have a distinct lifespan. It’s only the mind, spirit, and astral soul that’s eternal because it’s pure energy and can take on whatever form it wants to by just imagining and willing it. The way to overcome death is to make it so you’re no longer reborn into a physical, animal body. We transcend what we call death by remaining a permanent resident within the spiritual realm where we no longer have to enter into the realm of death as a means of knowing ourselves, where we have to undergo the experience of dying as a consequence. To achieve this, you undergo the same type of process while still alive as a means of preparing for death. You work earnestly to develop your character by transforming vices into virtues, correcting your own character flaws, transforming weaknesses into strengths, dissolving your own emotional delusions by employing your rational mind instead, redeeming yourself of things you created while in an unconscious state of ignorance, and learn to govern your own inner nature in order to become self-determined. You purify yourself, so to speak, of your lower, emotional, conditioned mind, which runs unconscious patterns in a habitual and repetitive fashion without any awareness of what you’re doing or the fact that you can change them by simply deciding to, and then employing your will in forming new, more productive and meaningful ones in their place.

Dr. Linda Gadbois               

Transpersonal Psychologist, Mind-Body Medicine Consultant, and Spiritual Teacher