Otherworldly experiences by the departed

2 1. Experiences with the world of the hereafter (Highlights by the publisher) During discussions in regards to questions of our physical death and the eventual possibility of our survival after, one often uses the idiom: “Nobody that died has ever come back” . As far as this idiom means a permanent return and disregards the possibility of a recurring reincarnation (Ergo return in the body of a newborn child), this idiom is naturally correct. • Some deceased, one commonly calls them the “dead”, have however returned to this Earth for short periods of time on numerous occasions . This either happened in full physical form, amongst other things with so-called materialisation mediums, or mainly through the temporary occupation of the body of a person still living on this Earth, people we denote as psychic. Their control centre or their human will can be empirically deactivated under certain conditions, ergo be replaced by an alien will. This is in certain cases already possible with living human beings, namely through the process of so-called hypnosis. • The deceased, so-called “spirit beings”, can however deactivate the will and the waking consciousness of suitably minded people to a stronger or less powerful degree. Spirit beings are in very distinct cases capable of controlling the voice box or other body parts (for instance the hands) of specifically gifted people (one talks about mediumship = the ability to mediate) as if they were their own. They are then able to convey all their personal knowledge and their language peculiarities to other living human beings in this way. Depending on the degree of deactivation of the waking consciousness of the mediating person, ergo the mediums, one talks about a full trance, a semi trance or inspiration . Trance means a specific physical state whereby the control of one’s will over the body is deactivated and in very pronounced cases one’s waking consciousness also. The exact physical and psychological actions involved in these paranormal processes are still unknown to this day. The external processes of trance speaking, trance writing (often called ‘automatic writing’) and full or partial dematerialisations show that our physical world is not the only form of existence. • These phenomena furnish the experienced evidence for the fact that our terrestrial demise is certainly not the end of life and they indicate that an ethereal life in a differently constructed world awaits us. Ever since people have been on this Earth, large sections of mankind have been convinced that an exchange of news between these two regions of existence is possible and that one can receive advice and even material help from deceased relatives or more eminent spirits from another world. Native tribes in particular make full use of this when they hunt, wage war or solve a crime. This makes it possible for them to better master their daily battle for survival. The knowledge about these things has largely been forgotten in European cultured societies. Only modern spiritism that gained prominence as a practical tool during the 19 th Century showed interested and inquisitive people that beings from a different realm of existence could sometimes provide practical help for their daily existence and that not only more or less good advice, but also very impressive interventions in the life of individual people or that very pertinent information can be forthcoming. Parapsychological examinations and observations have shown that human beings on Earth have a second “body”, an astral body (sometimes also called ethereal body, spirit body etc.), next to their physical, material body. It consists of an invisible, up to now physically undetectable substance, it is normally embedded in the physical body and connected to it through a thin, very elastic cord.

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