Four Questions and their Answers

QUESTION 1 - If we die with emotional attachments and "value judgments” (Karma), will we reincarnate involuntarily due to natural processes that this karma sets in motion, OR is reincarnation a decision we consciously decide upon and can refuse despite the fact we died with "karma”?

ANSWER 1 – There are innumerous worlds in the various universes, each one of them adequate to a certain level of spiritual development, being more or less subtle, as necessary for the “physical” bodies that incarnate in it. Spirits are born simple and ignorant and they evolve growing in wisdom and goodness throughout uncountable incarnations in those worlds. For each position in the evolution map there is a certain world that is the most adequate for the spiritual education of the spirits that have reached that position. Spiritual evolution is directed by two important and closely related laws: Free Will and Causality. Spirits that are incarnate on Earth (excluding those that are here as spiritual missionaries) have Free Will with respect to their actions and are bound by the Law of Causality with respect to the effects of their actions. Spirits can only work out their debts with the Law of Causality when they are incarnate in some world. There is no way for an imperfect spirit to refuse to reincarnate. If it is still bound by the Law of Causality, it will have to reincarnate in order to work out its debts. Only if it has already evolved to be a superior spirit, thus being free from the Law of Causality, will it gain free will with respect to the effects of its actions. Superior Spirits just know what is needed of them and they will not have to refuse any order for the sole reason that they do not need anyone to give them orders. If they know that the community living in a certain world can benefit from their presence, they will voluntarily incarnate there in order to help that community.

QUESTION 2 - Is the spirit body that leaves the physical body immortal and eternal if we choose to stay in the afterlife? Or does it rot and decay like the physical (fall into Entropy). Can we make it assume any form?

ANSWER 2 - First, I would like to stress the difference between eternal and immortal. Anything that has been created is a creature and cannot be eternal. Since we are Spirits, we have all been created, so we are immortal but not eternal. A Spirit has no matter therefore it can never decay. As to the Spirit’s subtle body, yes, it can assume various forms. Nevertheless, the forms it assumes are not only those that the Spirit consciously chooses but also those that its mental condition enforces. Saying in other words. Imperfect Spirits (like us) have an idea about themselves that differs much from the idea other people have of themselves. When we are discarnate, that idea we have of ourselves will be one of the factors in determining the form we will assume. Other factors may be our unmet desires, unfulfilled passions, guilty feelings and so on. One interesting case is that of suicide. An incarnate Spirit that commits suicide is so disturbed when it dies, that it may take an enormous amount of time to “wake up” in the spiritual dimensions. Its subtle body may assume the shape of a dark capsule leaving its subtle senses absolutely devoid of any perception during that time.

Superior Spirits – those that no longer do any action in discordance with God’s Laws and that are, therefore, free from the enforcement of the Law of Causality – can make their subtle body assume whichever shape is more suited to what they want to do. A Superior Spirit that wants to go to less evolved areas of the subtle or material worlds will certainly have the humility and wisdom to shape its subtle body so that the imperfect spirits it wants to help do not become ashamed or fearsome in its presence. One common thing Superior Spirits do is assuming the appearance of some good being that the assisted community already knows and loves.

QUESTION 3 - Can you go to the afterlife with your present ego-consciousness and belief systems (if they are open to life after death) and NOT gain knowledge of other incarnations and merge with your higher self UNTIL you decide you want to?

ANSWER 3 – When a Spirit incarnates, the individuality assumes a new personality. During the initial years of life, the individuality transfers to the personality the knowledge the latter needs for the present incarnation. Sometimes, this transfer process has some abnormalities (I am not saying imperfections, abnormality is something that is not normal, that is, an event that occurs rarely). One typical abnormality is due to a shortage of transfer, that is, the personality does not get everything it needs from the individuality (like seems to happen in Autism). Another typical abnormality is when the individuality transfers more than the indispensable knowledge of previous experiences. Normally, all the personality gets from previous lives are the conclusions of lessons learnt and not the full lessons. Nevertheless, sometimes the full lesson is remembered in detail. Well, when the Spirit discarnates, the reverse process is produced, that is, the personality transfers to the individuality the whole experience it has accumulated during the life that is at its end. If the stage of evolution of the Spirit in goodness is such that it is still attached to the “I” and “My” illusions, it will surely go to the afterlife with those illusions. When discarnate, the Spirit is no longer playing its personality role and so it will have access to all its previous incarnations, each one with a different intensity. Those incarnations that have been more significant in its mental formation will certainly be more present than those that have not added much to it. Just for the sake of an example, let’s think of notable historical personalities like Napoleon or Julius Caesar. Even after reincarnating many times in more obscure personalities, those two Spirits must have stayed feeling they were Napoleon or Julius Caesar whenever they were discarnate.

QUESTION 4 - Is the afterlife a realm where you can experience and create in astral form whatever you desire?

ANSWER 4 – Questions 4 and 2 are somewhat correlated. When a Spirit is incarnate, its mental projections can cause harm to itself or to other people in the form of mental, psychic and physical diseases. Nevertheless, the physical elements that exist in the material dimensions are too much heavy to be moved by the mental force of incarnate spirits. In the spiritual dimensions, on the other hand, the subtle body is in contact with much subtler elements and its mental projections do manipulate such elements, being thus able to create objects that may be perceived by its senses and by the senses of those Spirits that are in a similar evolution stage than it. The power to mentally manipulate the subtle elements as well as the mere capacity to manipulate them consciously both vary with the stage of evolution of the Spirit. A discarnate Spirit with very disturbed and wicked thoughts may create many unconscious mental projections around it and feel as if living in Hell, for instance. The spiritual dimensions are full of mental projections, many of them consciously built and the great majority built out of unconscious desire.