Spirituality

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Body and soul

Small glossary

The Heavenly Kingdom

Any complications in the second death are, after all, exceptions, or if you like, "accidents at work". Let us therefore quickly return to man who has just passed his third trial and who can now triumphantly go to his chosen spiritual place.

The flashback (the second)

In connection with man now detaching himself from the lower psychic bodies, a retrospective of life is presented. The difference from the retrospect in physical death is that the person now sees his life based on his own experience, it is a subjective view.

As before, the vision ends with an ecstatic image of heaven followed by a brief period of unconsciousness. For the person who independently seeks out the underworld, the process is somewhat different. First he abandons his higher sensory bodies, then the higher psychic bodies. During the ecstasy, he sees his intended abode in the underworld, and for him it is, after all, an inspiring sight. Rest assured, life is so ordered that everyone ends up in the right place.

The Gate of Heaven

The trials that man undergoes all take place in the lower spheres of the collective thought world, a relatively obscure environment. But for those who overcome the difficulties, a completely different experience awaits. There is a clear and distinct boundary between the underworld and the spirit world. How our mind perceives this passage between dark and light is a subjective consideration but generally the border appears as a vast and radiant gate.

This gate we have passed countless times because we are all eternal beings. When we see the gate, we intuitively recognize it and know what it stands for, its revelation is strongly imprinted in the subconscious. In the absolute vicinity of the gate rumbles a deep and dull tone whose frequency is fundamental to our part of the cosmos. If we are not on our way in, the doors are closed but at its edges we can still see a brilliant light seeping out.


The arrival

The dying person has just shed the last of the three heavier psychic bodies. Now he is born into true life. The gates of heaven open wide, just for him. The light and radiance cannot be described. He sees that many are coming to meet him. Some of them he recognizes, others he doesn't remember yet but intuitively understands that they are connected to him in one way or another. This is the first sphere of heaven, the Cultural Sphere.

In the Cultural Sphere, man survives in the spiritual body we described in the paragraph "The sensory body" as the atomic body. The individual assumes the form, the embodiment of the person they were in the prime of their age, but this time without illness or disability. Children who died early in life continue as children even in the spiritual realms. The stay in the higher spheres can be seen as a period of rest or vacation from the usually laborious physical existence.


The spiritual realms

The Kingdom of Heaven is not an end station, the soul is, so to speak, on a journey through the three higher spheres. The transition between the spheres is usually completely undramatic. When the time is right she may, without reflecting on it, fall asleep in one place, after which she wakes up in altogether different surroundings. All spheres possess great beauty, but they have different characteristics that we can briefly describe here.

The cultural sphere

The first celestial sphere begins with healing and introduction into the new life. After that, the person can take part in the activity. The cultural sphere is the area of ​​innovation, new skills and abilities that are founded here will later be realized in solid physical matter. It can be about artistic expression in color and shape. It may apply to developing new methods in botany, pedagogy or why not rock climbing. The list can be made long.

The emotional sphere

In this sphere, the emotional energies in all their forms are developed and mastered. Emotions are something that distinguishes man, a good quality that many cosmic peoples seem to marvel at. But emotional energies always need to be balanced to be useful. Too high a level of emotion leads to weakness and paralysis of action. Too low a level causes emotional coldness and risk of psychopathy. Sentiment is often seen as a weakness but distinguishes cultured people.

The emphatic sphere

The third heavenly realm is the realm of altruistic love and compassion. Here man has the opportunity to actively enter into the service of the good. The emphatic sphere is the starting point for the activities of the guardian angels in various areas of life. But here there is also an opportunity to expand knowledge about humans in their social context. It's about psychology, intuition and parapsychology. Finally, causality and karma, the law of cause and effect.


Residing in heaven

Seen from earthly conditions, the individual spends two years in each celestial sphere. Since it is a harmonious existence free from disease, no time is lost. There are days and nights even in the kingdom of heaven. The days are usually filled with activities, yet the need for sleep is significantly less than on earth. There is no sense of achievement or stress, everyone does what he or she wants. Recreation and play are part of everyday life and are not forgotten.

The soul who has completed their time in the current sphere intuitively understands when it is time to move on. The transition between the heavenly spheres takes place completely spontaneously. The individual falls asleep in one sphere and wakes up in a completely different environment. But even here there are people she recognizes from before and she is soon involved in the affairs of this sphere. Now she has a new subtle body, the previous one is dissolved but the ability to recreate it remains for some time.


Breaking up

Even the stay in the heavenly kingdom has an end. About six years have passed of earthly time, the exception is children who died from the physical world at a very young age, they usually spend significantly less time in the heavenly spheres. Man is now done with his tasks in the empathy sphere and it is time to say goodbye to old and new acquaintances. But many impressions and ideas have come about, and even now there is an incipient desire to return to the physical world.

When the soul leaves the heavenly kingdom, she is again drawn to the white light, the attendant awaits as always. In spiritual existence there are no complications, the attendant can immediately ask his obligatory question: "Are you ready to die?" Now it is about dying from the spiritual world. Assuming that the soul is ready, she now sees a flashback of her life in the heavenly realm. Close to the border area, she finally sees her future life in the subtle ‘thought-heaven.’


In heavenly thought-spheres

As the soul died from the spiritual world and released the bonds of her lighter sensory bodies, she also fell into unconsciousness. She now wakes up again and sees two lights dawning, one is the white light where the attendant is waiting. The other is the higher thought spheres of the Earth, to which she is still connected through her lighter psychic bodies. The individual can explore these realms on her own but the attendant intervenes should she get lost.

A consistent theme in the Tibetan Book of the Dead is that the dead person goes through a number of fainting states before being reborn. We now understand that it is every time the soul releases her sensory- or thought bodies that this occurs. This also happens when the soul lets its last remaining psychic body dissolve and enters as a full member of the seventh sphere. She has experienced this realm in the presence of the attendant, now she gets to experience it herself.


The memory world

The objective memory world

We are now outside the physical and the spiritual world. The ability to think remains, but there are no longer any connections to material phenomena. The imperishable soul still seeks objects of sensation and what remains are permanent memory traces of physical and spiritual life. These traces constitute the sum of all the actions, deeds and merits of man. Material bodies perish but the memory body is eternal.

Humans arrive in the Seventh Sphere from the Underworld as well as from the Heavenly sphere. All of them can examine their life path and follow the progress. They are in no way limited to the current life period. In fact, they embrace their entire human evolution on Earth and on other planets. A seemingly endless range of life’s from the minimal particle being, up to the current embodiment. Each of these embodiment’s constitutes the body of memory.


The subjective memory world

It is a very pleasant experience to look back on lives lived, in the seventh sphere all visions are freed from discomfort and pain sensations. We see them from the inside as before but now in a completely different light. In the end, the person is equally satiated even by these enriching retrospects. She now leaves the vision of sensory existence and, by analogy with previous events, she falls into unconsciousness. Regaining consciousness, she sees two different lights manifesting.

It is taken for granted that she should seek out the primary white light, but in these high spheres there is no express prohibition to explore the second light (the subjective memory world). Something she should keep in mind, however, is that this world corresponds to purgatory (with a presence of lower thought energies). There is also a risk here of getting lost in self-created horror scenarios. She is not allowed to linger too long in the long line of make-believe worlds.


The Self World

The subjective world of memory fades, man has rejoined the attendant, received a vision and fallen into unconsciousness. The memories are gone, they are still there but are now in a dormant state. The soul's sensation does not cease and what now emerges is the seventh sphere in its purest form. Without sensory or thought representations in real or symbolic form, man perceives only a spatial extension, a space of white light, which is the soul 'viewing itself.'

To link back to the two aspects of the soul, you can say that it is the sensory soul that creates the white space, the thought soul can then fill it with thought forms and that is also what happens. This inner space can be called the private world, or self world, because it is man's completely private sphere. Here he is the unrestricted ruler of all that exists, the matter created by him must obey his slightest command. He can also create a body for himself, completely according to his wishes.


 In the inner room

Staying in your Self world offers endless possibilities. In this sphere, the individual is director, scenographer and actor all at once. In the malleable thought matter, she can build a world that gives her pleasure. She can also create characters that act according to given premises. As narrator, she drives the plot forward. Maybe she chooses an active role in her world, maybe she prefers to hover a little above and only observe the events.


The concept of time has no meaning in the Self world, yet the stay is not unlimited. Seen from the perspective of God/Cosmos, the individual's time in this sphere is clearly defined. Yet this does not conflict with her free will, there is no conflict. In comparison to earthly time, the individual spends about six months in the memory/Self world. But if the earthly life was difficult, you can count on a longer stay. It's all about equalizing unpleasantness and pleasure.


The divine realm

Letting go of the self

Sooner or later the time comes when the soul is satisfied with her creative activity in the Self world. What she portrayed was beautiful and perfect, but the attraction to the fundamental earthly energies is now getting stronger. She wants to feel the physical contact with earth, water and air again, she wants to hold objects in her hands and feel their weight. The desire to embody newly acquired ideas in solid physical matter awakens a new longing for rebirth.

At this stage the attendant appears again, he/she appears as a light in the light. Again, the human soul merges with this being from another dimension. The attendant now shows the individual's life in the Self world, her life and creations, all in a simultaneous and magnificent vision. And so follows a presentation of the future, the individual now looks straight into the divine realm. What she sees evokes an indescribable ecstasy and consciousness fades out.


The ecstasy

What did the human soul see during the ecstasy? This depends to some extent on inner images of the individual soul, but certain basic features can still be determined. The moment the human soul left her own world, she received a message from the attendant. In words, it might read like this: “You will now go to meet the higher, universal aspect of yourself. I will go with you because my way also ends here.”

In a united embodiment they advance towards a shimmering throne, surrounded by angels. On the throne sits someone with a human shape. When the soul gets closer, she is amazed because it is like a mirror image of herself. The mirror image speaks to her and the meaning is: "I am your own and all human soul’s universal embodiment. Are you satisfied with your life journey?" A short conversation follows and the mirror image ends the dialogue with the words: "Come to me!"


One with the Universe

With the words "come to me", the human soul lets go of contact with her spiritual perspective. She suddenly ceases to be an individual who has a certain vantage point in her perception. The soul is incorporated into the whole but remains in the meaning "I am". First the unconscious stage unfolds, after a while she wakes up and now the perception of the world is completely changed. She is no longer localized to a place, instead she finds herself omnipresent.

The human soul is no longer in the cosmos, she is the cosmos. More specifically, all human expressions are parts of her manifestation. The human perspective is more than just people, a myriad of different life forms fit within the framework of what a human being is. What she experiences in her cosmic guise are all these life forms, however within certain given dimensions in terms of perception, space and time. This does not detract from the experience, the design nevertheless has the character of infinity.


Cosmic dialogue

In her cosmic embodiment, the human soul can still dialogue with the attendant. But the words never need to be spoken, the understanding is immediate. In this way, a dialogue continues throughout the divine sphere. The attendant, however, is in a completely different dimension. While the cosmic human soul experiences a continuous "now", the attendant instead experiences an immobile "then". The meaning of the latter is that the past and the future are simultaneously present.

But in the capacity of "human god" the cosmic soul also dialogues with an infinite number of human beings in the universe. It is not a conversation in the ordinary sense, the prayers, cries and questions of the people reach the cosmic soul as a noise. She answers all calls effortlessly. The calls touch her and are reflected back as various kinds of prayer answers. The answers come in the form that the individual can best understand in their current situation.


The spiritual god realm

Hitherto, the cosmic man has resided in the physical universe. Eventually, it is nonetheless time to continue. Even in this high state the cosmic soul meets his well-known attendant (who is now himself in a cosmic embodiment). In the white light of the seventh plane, the cosmic man sees his "cosmophysical" life again, which is usually followed by an ecstasy and an unconscious state. The future vision has this time shown the spiritual realm of the gods.

Of course, the fact that the cosmic soul leaves the physical world does not mean that the place becomes "vacant". The divine consciousness is constant, the only thing that happens is that the cosmic soul changes his focus from the physical world to the spiritual. This spiritual sphere of God is the exalted equivalent of the heavenly kingdom. The universal body form of the God-soul thus now consists of a lighter matter and the ascending prayers are of a completely different character.


The divine thought-heaven

Now, the god-soul has also left the spiritual god realm. As usual, she sees two lights which, in her exalted state, she immediately recognizes. She may choose to decline the presence of the white light for the time being and instead explore light number two. This is the revelation of the divine thought-heaven, the sublime thought-matter of the cosmos in one mighty embodiment.

Here, God/Cosmos does not appear in any objective sense. Instead, it is an expression of how the creator experiences itself. But even here the god-soul carries on conversation with the attendant and with countless human beings. The stay is not too long, it is after all spheres of thought matter and associated with certain risks. Soon enough, the journey goes towards the white light.


The Divine Memory World

After the time in the divine thought heaven comes retrospection, ecstasy and unconsciousness, as so many times before. The God-soul is now in the Divine Memory World. Perhaps she feels adventurous and ventures into the subjective part of this world for a while. The attendant immediately moves in if she were to get lost in endless spaces of thought. But perhaps she is content to enter the objective memory world and observe real events.

In the divine memory world, human history appears in all its guises and manifestations. Here all human expressions are represented, from the smallest human particles, through a multitude of incarnations, and up to unseen hyper galactic super-beings. But it is not just one life path that appears, in fact she sees all existing human life paths, all in a monumental cosmic embodiment; herself!


The divine self world

The cosmic soul has just experienced the joy of reunion in the divine memory world. Now she wakes up in the universal equivalent of the individual self-world. This is truly the arena of the creator god. Here she can build her ideal cosmos. Matter responds to her instantly, beings and forms are constantly ready to fulfill all her intentions. It is a spectacular contrast to the limitations of the individual human being.

The cosmic soul's thoughts and creations now take on ever more earthly expressions. Even the experience of omnipotence begins to appear trivial. Things manifest effortlessly, it's all almost a little too easy. She sees the struggling and striving of the individual soul in worldly affairs but she cannot remember that it was unpleasant. Instead, the life of the earthly soul now appears as an ideal, as an exciting challenge.


Rebirth

About seven years of earthly time have passed since the human soul died from the physical world. Now a divine being is getting ready to re-enter the earthly realm. In the divine self world, the God-soul has fused together with his attendant. As expected, he asks his question, but the wording reads: "Are you ready to be reborn?" The God-soul is ready and is now presented with a flashback of her self-created universe. A vision of the future follows. Unconsciousness.

The future vision concerns earthly life. The God-soul sees her birth, her parents, her future habitat. The whole of earthly life from beginning to end appears in this snapshot. The life ahead is at a higher level of maturity compared to the previous life. Perhaps she has even reached the point where a new category of personality awaits. Perhaps, after a series of lives, she has reached a changed outlook on life, faith in God. Perhaps a more developed life form awaits.

In the sixth month of the mother's pregnancy, the soul enters and takes up residence in the fetus. The observant may see a difference from one day to the next in terms of the mother's radiance. The yet unborn child floats around in the thought world. The memory from the previous life remains in the child's memory body and vision body. But the completed birth and tangible physical life crowd out the subtle memories. Again the memory of the past must be imprinted in the new body.


Epilogue

What can be said about the truthfulness of this vision? My belief is that the portrayal gives a reasonably good picture of an actual situation. But an equally great truth is that errors most certainly might have crept in. I do not have direct access to super-sensible information, like most others I have to scoop from the "fountain of wisdom". But this is an active and painstaking process, it is easy to become careless. I have sometimes thought: "I have a good enough understanding of this particular phenomenon". Later, however, I have found the analysis to be insufficient.

I therefore hope for indulgence with any mistakes. The ‘beyond’ is in many respects a thicket, getting lost is not difficult at all. This applies not least to the weight of words, certain well-known concepts mean different things to different people. I would therefore already like to announce that the writing will be updated if new facts come to light. Incidentally, the depiction only hints at certain universal transformation cycles (Tao) which form the framework of the entire creation. To account for them may possibly be such a difficult task that it cannot even be done.

As a conclusion, however, I want to engrave (in stone) three principles:


- The soul is eternal and imperishable.
- Death is only a transitional state.
- God/Cosmos is an inseparable part of all beings.




Prosperity and happiness to all.

Joakim R.S. Nilsson (JRSN)       https://astromantra.se



Updated: 02/17/2026


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