Will our souls be recognisable when we are without a body?

How far can we travel when we are no longer weighed down by the human body-container we used for living in the physical world? Can we travel far enough into the non-physical realms that our out-of-body appearance no longer resembles our recently-discarded physical body, but rather resembles ‘us’, our true self, our soul?

The ‘look’ we have in the non-physical realms is more important than many understand, regardless of whether we are having a temporary out-of-body experience or a permanent one (death). It will dictate where we can go in the non-physical realms.

However, after death of the body, rather than just a brief OBE, the distance we can travel in the non-physical realms has been referred to by the famous out-of-body traveller, Robert Munroe, as our “escape velocity”.

Both Munroe and William Buhlman, his fellow out-of-body teacher at the Munroe Institute, emphasised that we must remove all attachments to our earth life we just left behind or we will carry too much emotional weight to go very far in the non-physical realms.

Munroe’s definition of “escape velocity” is achieved when we move into the non-physical realms beyond the astral plane, where our appearance will no longer resemble a body we inhabited in our earth life.

But what would our appearance look like without the image we had of ourselves before we died? In order to cross the barriers beyond the astral plane, we must be recognisable as our true self.

If we still have attachments in the physical world, then our post-death image is unlikely to resemble ‘us’, as the physical body’s powerful “ego” will not have been stripped away, it will still be dominating our ‘look’. Our ‘look’ will resemble our state of mind at death.

“Ego” is the survival instinct of the human body, which we become very used to and comfortable with. This must be replaced as far as possible by instincts derived from the soul.

If we can stop the treadmill of life while we are still living for a while, and ask ourselves questions such as “Who am I?”, “What am I doing here?”, “What is my life’s purpose?”, then we can start the process of revealing who we really are. Our non-physical ‘look’ will then change accordingly.

The list of mind-limiting restrictive attachments from the physical realm is endless. It includes continuing attachment to living people, to property we owned or inhabited, locations, life status, addictions which draw us back (addictions can include addiction to emotional states as well as physical things or experiences), religious philosophies, focus on our physical image, and a continuing desire for more physical experiences of the sort we just left behind.  

As Susan Wisehart, author of the excellent book Soul Visioning said, we should stand back and think from the soul level rather than the ego level:

“When we stand at the top of the mountain, our view is vaster than if we stand at the bottom, when we can only see what is right in front of us. From the spirit realm, we can see the bigger picture.

When we forget this, we become so mired in the dense physical dimension that we believe that all we are is a body that gets sick, dies, and is forever gone. Reminded of who we really are, we often become less identified with our everyday ego persona.”

It is worth considering how we will look once we are no longer attached to our physical body. That look should be as pure as possible.

15 July 2022