Posted by What if we’re not meant to die? What if we are not meant to experience ‘death’ because our soul/essence is immortal? What if we’re not used to ‘dying’ and it is traumatic for us?
What if “something” or “someone” put ‘bodies’ on us and forced us to continually ‘die’, again and again in a loop, when the bodies stop working? When the ‘body machines’, the ‘robots’, stop functioning?
Then, when we die, we have to cross the astral plane to get back ‘home’, where we come from? And that plane is now really hard to cross?
Perhaps the irony is that this plane we must cross was created by ourselves, a plane that we now know is dangerous and difficult to cross (as Swedenborg, Dante, and more recently Robert Munroe have written about). The difficulty and danger is in our own minds.
This is because the astral plane is the emanations, the thoughts, from the dark minds of humans during their lives – those bodies that have been mind-programmed daily by the Controllers of this artificial realm and now torture each other without the need for help from the Controllers.
And now we have to de-program our minds to cross the astral plane effectively.
De-programming, or ‘purifying’ (purging, or going through purgatory during our life, pre-death), the removal of body and mind parasites which influence our thoughts, can be achieved through a number of processes, one of which is the process of recapitulation (which Don Juan/Castaneda discussed in many of his books).
By whatever method we perform the ‘purification’, it is the release of all the mental/emotional weight, our attachments, addictions, desires we have accumulated through ‘living’, and then we are not desirable to the dark forces (that we created ourselves) during the crossing to return back home.
If we don’t have sufficient escape velocity to cross the astral plane, we get trapped/caught (“the soul trap”) and then we are reprocessed in the recycling loop for another ‘life’ in a body and all the horror of another ‘death’ we never wanted. How many times have we done this, this attempt to get home, like is portrayed in the film Edge of Tomorrow?
Near-death experiencers, out of body travellers, shamans, yogis, sages, lucid dying Lamas, and dreamers have often reported reaching the Crossing Point – the Higher Self is waiting on the other side. We can see it across the way. But we need to cross the treacherous astral layer, the cesspit of human thought, to get home.
It is the Essence (‘us’) which needs to reach the other side safely. This sits inside its container (the Soul) in the second body, the energy body, as research into the Assemblage Point tells us. The Controllers need this Essence (sometimes called a ‘divine spark’) to fail to make the crossing. They need it in the physical plane.
But this is becoming easier for the Controllers, because the trap is what everyone is rushing to be part of, the new technology and transhumanism.
Then we are really trapped as we never break the silver cord between lives, it is one continuous energy-harvesting trap.
It will all end when the artificial world collapses though. Bind oneself to technology and we bind ourselves to this artificial world while it lasts.
When we are without body we are just ‘mind’. Crossing back home is becoming harder with the technology changes and the pace of distraction we see in ‘living’ Achieving the process (prior to crossing) of returning our mind to its blueprint, its purity we had when we arrived, is so hard now. But if we achieve this, we cross unhindered then.
To do this, perhaps we need to ‘disappear’, to cease to be involved in the world, to leave behind all the distractions and disruptions of the game of this life. But who will do that?
23 October 2025
Piers Morris Blogspot 
Hi Piers
I suspect that your bookshelf and mine are very similar!
I really appreciate the way you’ve explored this and the reference to astral plane crossing etc, and the insights from the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Where I’d gently differ is that, from the view of Advaita Vedanta (traditional, based on the works of Shankara -not the new age neo Vedanta !!) or in the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and Richard Rose, the notion of “crossing planes” or taking post-mortem steps to escape a trap still belongs to Maya — the simulation itself.
From that standpoint, what we call “soul,” “trap,” “controllers,” and even “escape” are all part of the same dream. They appear real only to the one who imagines itself to be an entity moving through time and space. When that “I-thought” is seen through, there is nothing to purify or travel across
Nisargadatta Maharaj put it clearly ” I am That”. The realisation is immediate, not somewhere to get to or a journey across planes of astral dimensions.
So perhaps the real escape isn’t a journey through levels but a single shift in seeing — from being the traveller to knowing oneself as the field in which even the idea of travelling arises.
Who is it that dies? I think that is the fundamental and maybe only answerable by an act of Grace.
Kindest
Martin
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Hi Martin, I like the way you think. One day we must organise a coffee somewhere with other enlightened souls!
There are perhaps two ways of looking at what you are suggesting (and they are basically just variations on a theme):
Firstly, that this life is simply a computer game where one day we take the headset off and pop out of the game, returning to ‘ourselves’, knowing all along that it was just a game.
Or secondly, that it was just a game in an artificial world, but we forgot that fact and got deeper and deeper into the game, and the only way out is to ‘free our mind’ from all that we burdened ourselves with during the game. This would be the path across the astral plane.
We move out of the game once we clear our minds and realise what happened.
The question I have with what you say (which I like btw) is this: what were those people who “Are” doing in the game?
Surely they have already completed their soul development so wouldn’t be in the game at all [the holographic contained artificial world “we” live in, otherwise known as a “simulation”]. They would have returned to Source or be ‘elsewhere’. This game is really a struggle of the mind.
We’re in the game because we either got trapped, or are there for some other reason (“soul development?”). But I tend to think that there ought to be a reason to ‘be here’ (even if it was a trick, as the Gnostics believe)?
Of course, nothing is ‘real’. We know this from quantum physics now! We are a hologram and ‘the game’ is one gigantic hologram (unreal)!
But I like your idea of “I Am That”. When I first started the blog, I was regularly re-reading Herman Hesse’s texts, and you might consider re-reading Steppenwolf (or at least the first part). And he references Tat Tvam Asi there:
Maybe we need to think of this: What is “Beyond the Mind”? Back Home finally?
Best, Piers
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