Posted by It is worth remembering that “emotion” is attached to the human body, and we leave that behind on exit. The problem is that most people ‘carry’ all their emotional baggage onwards, forgetting to ‘let go’ (which is easy to do, as that baggage is what we accumulated through all our experiences across our lifetime, which we identify with and call “our life”).
If we still ‘think’ we still have a ‘human form’ after we die, we will. This concept was well portrayed in Richard Matheson’s book (and the subsequent film), What Dreams May Come.
Eventually we will ‘lose the human form’ (the one we had when we died) while we are in the non-physical world, but by that time it will be too late to free our spirit as we will be about to be recycled, re-processed, and jacked into, another human body/form. Ouch!
In Carlos Castaneda’s 1981 masterpiece, The Eagles Gift, he discusses ‘losing the human form’ before we die. This way we can exert some control over the post-death process.
This ‘loss of the human form’ before we die is not (of course) a literal loss of the human form, as we need that for our life in physicality, but simply losing the conditioning and programming we have acquired across our lives, which has been called our “ego”, and which Castaneda calls a “foreign installation”.
This isn’t ‘us’, but it controls ‘us’ during our lives. It is comprised of emotion, memories, attachments, image, experiences, our past history, and all the conditioning and programming we have taken on board (our ‘belief-system’) as part of our personality while living. Castaneda also calls this our “awareness”.
Emotion is the most important component of ‘awareness’ however, as it governs everything that is ‘human’. This is emphasised by Dr Michael Nehls, a physician who specialises in memory-related issues, who reveals that without emotion, we cannot retain memory (see for instance his interview with Mike Adams on the Brighteon channel earlier this year).
Seers and thinkers understand that the only event that really matters in our lives is the last one, death, and we certainly don’t want emotion weighing us down on death. Castaneda knew that what happens immediately after we die depends on how much emotion we are carrying on death, and the main theme across his books was learning how to die correctly. This theme was decades ahead of today’s trend to discover this information.
If we can train ourselves to have neutralised our emotion at the time of death, we can by-pass a nasty experience that Castaneda came to understand through his non-physical travelling experiences (and which other non-physical astral travellers like Angeliki Anagnostou also discuss). Emotion is “e-motion”, in other words, energy that is moving. This is not beneficial on death, we need calmness and stillness.
Indeed, Angeliki Anagnostou, in Can You Stand the Truth, maintains that we need to remove all emotional bonds, including love and hate. She says:
Your astro-aethero-emotional body is their (the astral entities) nutrition, and the more you enrich it with desires, weaknesses and passions the more tempting and delicious it becomes to the inhabitants of the lower planes. If you supply it with the pain of your sacrifice and your counterfeit ‘positive’ energy, it becomes the ‘bon filet’ destined to please the ‘upper classes’.
So both pleasure and pain are undesirable. But Castaneda said that there was a way around this post-death “eating” of our ‘awareness’ (and then the onward process after death to a recycling into a new body to build up new emotions). He called it “the Eagle’s Gift”.
Castaneda discovered through his anthropological work with Indians in Mexico that our total being consists of two perceivable segments, the physical body and the luminous body. The luminous body, which we normally can’t perceive, can be reached by a practice called “not doing”. We need this luminous body on death, and we should understand it before then.
“Not doing” is an act which we normally wouldn’t do which engages our total being by forcing it to become conscious of its luminous segment. Our awareness will then perceive the luminous cocoon around our physical body.
Material possessions distract us from our focus on the luminous body. The desire to hold onto things is an unhelpful fixation, which limits perception. It creates a barrier to the important process of ‘losing the human form’ before death. We cling to unimportant things like our image, our desire to be liked, food, the array of physical sensations and so on.
We need to break the luminous shell (which contains our awareness which the Eagle wishes to eat) and liberate the core (which is ‘us’, or our “other self” as Castaneda calls it) so it is free rather than trapped again in a new human form.
“The Eagle” is the final gatekeeper on death. It is the entity (or entities) that govern the destiny of all living beings and where they can go on death, there being two options: exit or recycling. It devours, on death, all the things that living creatures created and carried with them through their time as living creatures.
But it can sometimes grant a gift to a living creature at the moment of death. This is the gift to avoid consumption (and recycling), liberate the core, and be allowed to seek an opening to freedom and go through it.
Don Juan, the seer in The Eagles Gift, says we can go through what he called ‘cracks’ or ‘power spots’ in the world if we are formless, and this takes us into the unknown, another world. Formlessness requires detachment from the world. He describes going through the opening as the feeling of exploding from within. Beyond the entrance to the opening was nothing. It has no physicality, nothing that could be seen.
How do we arrive at a point where the Eagle will grant the gift of entrance to the opening to the world of freedom?
Castaneda/Don Juan says the answer is by undertaking a full “recapitulation”, a process by which we can remember our “other self”. Through this method, the Eagle will accept the replica of awareness in place of the real thing, taking the replica and devouring that, leaving the consciousness of the being intact to take through the opening.
The method of a full recapitulation is explained in detail on pages 287-289 of The Eagle’s Gift (and also in The Active Side of Infinity). Recapitulation allows us to retain (and restore/recover) our energy while losing the human form.
We need energy to make it through the opening. And to obtain that energy, Castaneda says we need intent to re-live the memories and expunge them. The method to do this is explained in the section referenced above in The Eagles Gift, which involves a breathing exercise which expunges the emotions and traumas acquired from living.
The Breathing Exercise: Pick a key event of the life we are living. The chin is placed on the right shoulder and we slowly inhale while moving the head in an arc until it reaches the left shoulder. We exhale as we move the head back to a relaxed position looking straight ahead. This is repeated until the feelings recounted have been expended. This restores energy. Castaneda says this restoration is the picking up of luminous body filaments propelled out by emotion during the event being recollected, and the expelling of filaments left in them by other luminous bodies during that event. This can be called a ‘clearing’ and cleansing.
All should be well through proper preparation. Angeliki quotes the Gospel of Philip, Ch. 13, which says:
“He who has received the Light shall not be seen, nor shall they be able to seize him; nor shall anyone be able to disturb this one of this nature, even if he socialises in the world. And furthermore, when he leaves the world he has already received the truth via the imagery”.
In other words, a person who has prepared properly for death shall not be perceivable by the dark forces.
For narrow is the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matthew 7:14.
27 October 2024
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