“You may, after death, utterly refuse to believe that you are dead, and continue to focus your emotional energy toward those you have known in life.
“If you have been obsessed with a particular project, for example, you may try to complete it. There are always guides to help you understand your situation, but you may be so engrossed that you pay them no heed.
“Now: I will cover the subject of ghosts separately, rather than in this chapter. Suffice it to say that large fields of emotional focus toward physical reality can hold you back from further development.
“When consciousness leaves the body and is away for some time then the connection is, of course, broken. In out of body states the connection still holds. Now it is possible for an individual who has died to completely misinterpret the experience and attempt to reenter the corpse. This can happen when the personality identified himself almost exclusively with the physical image.
“It is not common. But nevertheless, under various circumstances, such individuals will attempt to reactivate the physical mechanism, becoming more panic-stricken when they discover the body’s condition. Some, for example, have wept over the corpse long after the mourners have left, not realizing that they themselves are completely whole—where, for example, the body may have been ill or the organs beyond repair.
“They are like a dog worrying a bone. Those who have not identified their consciousness with the body completely, find it much easier to leave it. Those who have hated the body find, strangely enough, that immediately after death they are quite drawn to it.
“All of these circumstances then may or may not occur according to the individual involved. However, after leaving the physical body, you will immediately find yourself in another. This is the same kind of form in which you travel in out of body projections, and again let me remind my readers that each of them leaves the body for some time each night during sleep.
“This form will seem physical. It will not be seen by those still in the physical body however, generally speaking. It can do anything that you do now in your dreams. Therefore it flies, goes through solid objects, and is moved directly by your will, taking you, say, from one location to another as you may think of these locations.
“If you wonder what Aunt Sally is doing in, say, Poughkeepsie, New York, then you will find yourself there. However, you cannot, as a rule, manipulate physical objects. You cannot pick up a lamp or throw a dish. This body is yours instantly, but it is not the only form that you will have. For that matter, this image is not a new one. It is inter-wound with your physical body now, but you do not perceive it. Following death, it will be the only body you are aware of for some time.
“Much later and on many levels you will finally learn to take many forms, as you choose, consciously. In one manner of speaking you do this now, you see, translating your psychological experience—your thoughts and emotions—quite literally but unconsciously into physical objects. You may find that when you imagine yourself as a child—after death —that you suddenly have the form of the child that you were. For a certain period of time, therefore, you can manipulate this form so that it takes any appearance that it had when it was connected with your physical form in the immediately previous physical life. You may die at eighty and after death think of the youth and vitality that you had at twenty, and find then that your form changes to correspond with this inner image.
“Most individuals after death choose a more mature image that usually corresponds to the peak physical abilities, regardless of the age when the physical peak was reached. Others choose instead to take the form they had at the particular point when the greatest mental or emotional heights were achieved, regardless of the beauty or age that characterized the form. Do you follow me?
(“Yes.” – Robert Butts – as he records Seth’s words, spoken through Jane.)
“You will feel comfortable with the form that you choose, therefore, and you will usually use it when you want to communicate with others you have known; though for such communications with the living, you may instead adopt the form you had when you were known to the individual you want to contact.”
Seth Speaks – the Eternal Validity of the Soul, Session 537
Copyright © Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts. Current copyright holder – Laurel Davies-Butts
Seth on Life After Death – Part 1
Seth on Life After Death – Part 3
For some idea of what Seth describes as bodily changes in dreams, read: The Ball of Light – A Lucid Dream About the Nature of Being and Creation. In this dream, I changed the density of my body several times until I became pure consciousness or Energetic Awareness (self-aware, vibrating energy). It was necessary for me to do this in order to follow the unseen intent of my unfolding thoughts and emotions. It is as natural as breathing and something I’ve done many times in other dreams.
Many recently passed individuals contact people they’ve known, their spouses and children especially, to let them know all is well with them and not to worry. For examples of After Death Communication, Google: “After death contact”. This query brings up many links to studies and accounts of after death experiences. For an example here, read: Do Ghosts Attend their own Funerals
Pete – https://realtalkworld.com
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having (creating) a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“How you define yourself and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality.” – Seth
In other words, we create our reality from what we think and feel about ourselves and All That Is.
If we don’t consciously choose our beliefs, we unconsciously absorb them from our surroundings.
If our beliefs, attitudes, values and expectations create reality, can we afford not to question them?
What others will not or cannot do for us, we must do for ourselves.
The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of our experience. Look for them!
