There comes a point where the pull on the physical body from the earth plane and the lack of sustenance to the physical body via the soul cause the body to cease functioning. At that point things happen very quickly – something that has been going on for years suddenly terminates, suddenly comes to a conclusion, and the soul is released. The body falls away and the soul is projected instantly to the vibration that is suitable for it to appreciate, consciously and harmoniously. The soul, in other words, goes to the place that has been prepared for it by its endeavours during its recent stay on the earth plane plus the culmination of its endeavours during other lifetimes and experiences to this point.
There is a cord that is often talked about in spiritual books and spiritual discussions which connects the soul (which is also a casing, of course, for the consciousness that is represented as an individual) to the physical body. That cord allows the soul – for the time that the physical body is on Earth – to be either totally integrated with the physical body or, during sleep-time or trance-meditation or other changes of mind-vibration, to exist at a distance from the physical body and yet still be connected to it. Whilst the cord is connected to the physical body energy flows from the soul and the soul is able to animate the physical body.
At the point of no return there is a severing of the cord and, as soon as the cord has severed, the cord retreats; the projection of energy or cone of electro-magnetic energy that the cord represents is reabsorbed into the shell that is the soul and the body undergoes a death. The soul does not undergo a death but the body undergoes a death because the body has an intelligence that has been fed by the electro-magnetic impulses from the soul via the cord. The body operates, to some extent, autonomously and independently of the soul but needs the soul’s connection to it in order to exist. The body has a separate intelligence that is programmed to operate at a certain level of health and to operate at a certain level of instinct. You do not, for example, have to tell your feet to walk or your head to turn or your eyes to focus; that is a separate intelligence – separate to you yet connected to you and tailored individually to you via the energies that emanate from your soul to animate that body.
When the soul severs its connection to the physical body, the physical body’s intelligence truly dies as an individualisation of energy. The energy that is within the physical body migrates back to a pool of energy from which other physicalities can be drawn. That pool of energy has a separate consciousness to the soul-consciousness. What I am saying is that there is a pool of energy from which physicality is created that is separate from the God-energy that the human soul is created from and the intelligence within the physical body migrates back to that pool. That pool in itself is also God-energy (please do not misunderstand me) but it is not the God-energy that is the individualisation that you recognise as the individual soul.
Once the energy from the physical body has migrated back to the pool, the body lacks coherence because the body then is simply a construct within the illusion without any individual identity, and the magnetic attraction of the illusion breaks down that body into the soup of consciousness that we have called ‘the Field’ in the other titles. The body goes back to the Field. The ancients knew this – the ancients knew that the physical body had a separate consciousness to the soul, not an identity but a conscious, intelligent programme that ran the physical body. This, again, is why, upon physical death, the physical body in ancient times was completely destroyed and taken back to the Earth – usually by fire – to make absolutely certain that the consciousness within the physical body had migrated back to the Field and could not be linked to the body.
Here I must explain that the soul, upon physical death, will sometimes not relinquish the body – particularly if the soul believes that it is the body – and the soul tries to re-animate the body on occasions saying, ‘Why am I lying here when I can open my eyes but I can’t see through my physical eyes? Why can I not lift my hands or move my feet?’ The ancients knew that, in destroying the physical body and allowing that energy of the physical body to migrate back to the pool of energy that feeds individualisation on a physical level, they were freeing the soul.
Souls, as you know, become stuck, and they become stuck because they are not ready to acknowledge that there is anything beyond the death of the physical body; they become stuck because they have forgotten that they are Light and that they are spiritual beings. On the death of the body, in many cases, the soul cannot acknowledge and come to terms with the separation of the body from the soul’s shell and desperately tries to re-animate the physical body for a time. Many souls actually inhabit the physical body until the physical body is no more, until the strength of the illusion pulling at the physical body overpowers the soul’s memory of the physical body. Sometimes bodies decompose at a different rate; sometimes bodies are preserved. Sometimes a body, years after interment, can be as new, and this depends on the strength of the soul wishing to keep that physical body together.
There are many, many souls that inhabit the area of their physical body for as long as possible because they cannot acknowledge anything else. But there comes a point for each soul when their effect on the physical Field is (if you will forgive the expression) a ghost of its former strength and, at that point, the physical body gives in to the pull of the illusion; the intelligence of the physical body is fully absorbed back into the individualisation pool that relates to physical matter and the soul is left wondering what to do next.
This does not, of course, apply to a great many souls… yet there are a great many souls who will not leave this place, and there are a great many souls, too, who leave expecting specifics: expecting upon death of the physical body, for example, to see their Saviour; to be in a specific type of Heaven; to be greeted by saints or holy men and women; to be in a place that is a reward for their past endeavours on Earth.
If only it were so simple!
So, this initial talk, this initial chapter, is about the Last Chapter; it is about the need for you, the reader of this book, to acknowledge that you are not permanent on a physical level and that there has never been a soul on a physical level that is permanent.
You are on a journey. If you were to set out on a holiday you would expect, wouldn’t you, to enjoy the journey outwards and to anticipate the days ahead? Then there would come a mid-point in your holiday where there were as many days behind as there were in front, and from that point you would say, ‘I only have x days left – four days left; three days left; two days left.’ Then you would gather your possessions and you would return to your home. The holiday would be over. The journey would be over. In this case as below, so above …this is what happens to the soul. The soul has gone not on a holiday, but on a journey, and has set out into physicality. But physicality is an impermanent state so the soul has to turn around and return to its start-point – bringing with it its experiences.
You are going to die…
…but that is a joyous thing; that is an exciting thing; that is a further journey. I do not open this book to make you sad, to make you miserable. I wish to make you aware of the fact that you will not be here for much longer (no matter how young you are as a reader reading these words) and that there is a far more exciting, infinite journey ahead of you. In making you aware of your own mortality (of the mortality of your physical body) you will be more interested in what comes next… because the soul always has to have a ‘next’. The soul is always moving on to a new experience, to a new integration of itself with levels of energy.
The level of energy that you leave when your soul parts company with your physical body is a low one, is a restrictive one, is a limited one in vision, understanding and experience. So many souls cling on to this experience and return themselves to it. In this book I hope to show you that there is much more ahead for you than you could ever experience on the earth plane. Also, I hope to change your attitude towards death – not so that you welcome it (you are supposed to be here, you are designed to be here for a certain amount of time) but so that you are not afraid of it, and so that you are given the option, to examine and to consider, of not coming back here.
Many of your cultures talk of reincarnation. Reincarnation does exist, but you are the one who instigates it and you instigate it because either you feel that you have unfinished business on the earth plane or you feel that the experiences the earth plane has to give you are worth re-experiencing. You are drawn