by Jurgen Ziewe

What is it like to be “dead”? – Common Misconceptions and Reality

We are not floating bubbles or globes of light drifting through vaporous mists when we die. We are just as real with proper bodies as we are on the physical plane.

People frequently think of the dead as disembodied spirits in the shape of balls of light or fuzzy ghostly apparitions when they contemplate a life after death.

When I read some of these reports (not all) by well known regressionists using deep hypnotic trance in order to lead their subjects into afterlife states, I have been surprised to discover that many of the accounts consist of seeing disembodied orbs of light, specks of awareness without eyes drifting in a sea of hazy mists surrounded by other energies, being pulled by certain currents and conglomerating in hives of souls.

Very few of these reports compare with any of my own observations and experiences conducted over the last forty years of out-of-body investigation into life after death. Regardless of what the hypnotist or their subjects may claim and despite risking making myself unpopular with hundreds of thousands of followers of such reports, I believe it is highly likely that at least some of the hypnotees were describing a mental abstraction of their waking life experience within their social groups of friends, families and other social dynamics, rather than an authentic life after death experience.

The total absence in such reports of any description of the overwhelmingly beautiful landscapes and environments which often greet us when out of the body, especially on the higher dimensional levels, leads me to the conclusion that the hypnotic subjects may have failed to register these incredible vistas of our parallel universe. How is that possible? I believe some may have ventured along a path within their own minds, imagining what an afterlife would look like, rather than actually visiting it, or pondering their lives by externalising it, including real life relationships, their guiding Jungian Higher Self assuming the persona of their spiritual guide, etc.

In my own experience I have found it impossible to ignore the very abundant environments I have found myself in without at least making a fleeting reference to them. My own experience of the higher dimensions presented itself much more sharply; I have often found myself in an expanded state of consciousness with a much more acute awareness.

Though it is true that we can function as awareness without a body temporarily, this is rare, as the energies of our habitual identity inevitably seek to endow us with a body which vibrates on the same frequency as the dimension it inhabits.

So people preparing themselves for their future life after discarding their physical body can take comfort in the fact that our afterlife, provided we move beyond the first two levels described here next, will be anything other than a vague amorphous floating around in featureless mists. In Multidimensional Man large chunks of the book have been devoted to the description of such abundant afterlife.

See Part I here.