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What Happens After You Die

(Actually it’s not that bad)

(or shouldn’t be)

Please note that we are talking here about physical death and that you as an individual entity will be carrying on. There will be some changes however.

The first thing that happens at physical death is that life energy or Prana withdraws from the physical body. This is sometimes represented by the energy body rising above the physical connected by a silver chord and the chord breaking.

While this is happening you get a free film show in the form of an objective review of the life you have just led. You can expect the honest truth here there’s no spin and no illusions.

From this point your physical life has ended and you can regard yourself as dead for all practical purposes. There is a brief period of unconsciousness.

You then find yourself in the spirit realms (Kama Loka). You go into a realm of your own creation and if you’ve lived a pretty mean life then you can find your spirit realm a pretty mean unpleasant place and you can be stuck there for a long time. Spiritually advanced people and all round good people will move through Kama Loka fairly quickly and easily.

Kama Loka (Can be Hell, but not eternal)

For people who have lived evil lives, Kama Loka is probably the closest thing that Theosophy has to the concept of hell. It can last a long time but not forever.

Through Kama Loka the individual loses all earthly characteristics and attachments as the personality is dissolved. An essence of experience is distilled from the life lived and the individual experiences another life review. The individual is now ready to enter the second death (Devachan).

Devachan is really a subjective state but a great state to be in. The individual is surrounded by loved ones in ideal circumstances and positive aspirations of the past life are fulfilled.

Unfortunately Devachan can’t last. You have to leave and be born into another incarnation. There is some choice about your new life based on what you need to learn but you can’t be too choosy and have to take the most appropriate of what is available.

As you go back into reincarnation your last life can haunt you in the form of Skandhas, which are attributes developed previously and carried forward.

Contacting the Dead

Theosophy maintains that a psychic imprint can be left behind by the individual which has the attributes of the deceased personality. Mediums can contact this imprint and revitalize some of the aspects of the personality but it is only a shell.

The Most Basic Theosophy

Website in the Universe

A quick overview of Theosophy

and the Theosophical Society

If you run a Theosophy Study Group you

can use this as an introductory handout.