Death – A New Adventure
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form. For example, chemical energy is converted to kinetic energy when a stick of dynamite explodes.
This is a well-known fact often, and mistakenly attributed to Albert Einstein. According to Scientific America, the law of conservation of energy, also known as the first law of thermodynamics, states that the energy of a closed system must remain constant—it can neither increase nor decrease without interference from outside. The galaxy in which Earth exists can be described as a closed system, so the total amount of energy in its existence has always been the same. The forms that energy takes, however, are constantly changing.
Earth, air, water and fire are uniquely combined to sustain life on our planet, and they are in a constant state of change. By the same token our bodies, emotions, mental state, actions, and even our thoughts, exist in an ever-changing, progressive state that shares a constant amount of energy. When we die, this energy transmutes into another form.
Is this transformation of energy a bridge between conscious and unconscious worlds? When we sleep where does our active conscious energy go? Dreams perhaps? Our body, even though asleep. still requires energy to keep going. Whilst our muscles are completely relaxed our body continually requires its circulatory system to operate. But what happens when we die? If energy cannot be destroyed, and can only change form, what form does our personal store of energy change into? Can a real understanding of the physics of energy and its omnipresence in the universe change how we view our own consciousness as a form of transformational energy, and perhaps in turn, redefine our ideas of death, not as a catastrophic and terrifying event but a shift to another concept of perhaps a familiar dimension?
It is highly conceivable that our form returns to its origin. That is, to the greater soul, or the collective consciousness that exists in other forms such as the astral plane of existence. This plane is close, but invisible to our gross material world but on a higher vibration and therefore not subject to the Law of Gravity or encumbered by the five senses. I like to think of it as the plane of choices. It is where we can look back on our lives, not from memories that are formed in the brain region called the hippocampus which cannot be accessed after death; but via the Akashic Record, a universal repository or library containing the records of all thoughts, emotions, and experiences of every entity and life form since the beginning of time. From here we can decide whether or not to return for another incarnation in order to reconcile certain possible indiscretions or pain we have inflicted, or to make amends for a damaging path in our life; or simply, having fulfilled a life of selfless service and giving, to return as a teacher, guide and mentor to those that would benefit.
There is no evidence for the existence of an Akashic records, and the concept has seen little academic attention or rigorous scientific research. But it is worth keeping in mind that where there is consciousness there is energy, and the vibrational activity of a life on earth may echo in infinity and manifest in the ether. Even on an astral level there is purpose and intent, and memories and thoughts are still forms of energy. Our lack of insight or awareness of an astral presence as a precursor to our unity with the greater soul or a re-entry to a material life does not negate the possibility of an etheric record. This transformation of energy to a conscious ethereal presence can throw a whole new complexion on the notion of life and death, opening the door to the discovery of being the overseer of our own destiny.
Conventional religious theories of a final judgement and heaven or hell for all eternity inadvertently make clear reference to a continuing existence, albeit, one of pleasure or pain depending on a life of giving and service, or unforgiven transgressions.
The teachings of Djwal Khul, as conveyed through Alice Bailey states, “Our ideas of death have been erroneous; we have looked on it as a great and ultimate terror, whereas in reality it is a great escape, the entrance into a fuller measure of activity and a release of the life from the crystallised vehicle and an inadequate form.”
We tend to forget that in sleep we die to the physical plane and become active and functioning elsewhere. Sleep and death are similar, the only difference being that in sleep, the magnetic umbilical cord or current of energy along which the life force streams is still intact. This life thread that enables a return to the body is broken at death but the fear and dread that taunts the individual in life is no longer present as in the moment that the body passes, a new life begins unencumbered by the limitations of distracting existential influence and the five senses.
The gateway through which we pass into a higher level of consciousness will all at once become familiar. For the cruelly selfish, wicked, and those who live for the material life only will remain “earth-bound” and will seek with every sense of their being to re-contact and re-enter to adjust and resolve toxic karma, and reconcile incomplete, failed and damaged relations. For those with a great personal love for those left behind or a duty or obligation to an urgent and unfinished cause may also find themselves in a similar place, bound to those people and events with a desire to re-enter. But for these individuals, death is an immediate entrance into the sphere of altruistic service which will be recognised as not new and may prompt a deep sense of familiarity with activities experienced in the long hours of sleep from life on Earth, including unspoken and unvoiced dreams of strangely familiar places and people unrecognised in a wakened state.
Again, I quote the words of Djwal Khul, “Another fear which induces mankind to regard death as a calamity is one which theological religion has inculcated, particularly the Protestant fundamentalists and the Roman Catholic Church – the fear of hell, the imposition of penalties, usually out of all proportion to the errors of a lifetime, and the terrors imposed by an angry God. To these humans are told they will have to submit and from them there is no escape, except through the vicarious atonement. There is, as you well know, no angry God, no hell and no vicarious atonement. There is only a great principle of love animating the entire universe; there is the Presence of the Christ, indicating to humanity the fact of the soul and we are saved by the livingness of that soul, and the only hell is the earth itself, where we learn to work out our own salvation, actuated by the principle of love and light, and incited thereto by the example of Christ and the inner urge of our own soul.”
So, in conclusion, consciousness is a form of energy that can remove the cloud of fear and bring about a metamorphosis, and recognition of this can and will allay old and deep-rooted fears of death as a final event. To understand this offers new possibilities when our time comes to leave this earthly plane. Rather than dread the unknown, the separation, the loss, and a terrifying drop into uncharted territory, we can put our house in order, repair what has been broken, and elevate our worldly presence by embracing compassion, love, light and forgiveness, thus laying a broad and firm path into a greater spiritual awakening with revitalised energy.
