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The Three-fold Process of Dying
Phase 1 - The dissolution of the physical senses and the cessation of awareness of the physical body. When this is completed, there is no more sense-activity or awareness of the material world.
Phase 2 - The dissolution of the elements and the psyche. The element earth sinks into water, and the water of the body can no longer be sustained. Water sinks into fire which dries out speech; fire sinks into air and it dissipates the heat of the body. Then the element of wind sinks into ether which holds the mind substance. Lastly, the outer breath and inner breath consume one another. When the last elements and their interconnected properties are dissolved, pure awareness remains and is freed from all attachments to the material world, then the primordial clear light is experienced boundlessly in a non-dimensional space.
Phase 3 - The illumination of consciousness after death. This describes how the signals which pass through our senses while still alive gradually turn into a self-representation of awareness at the moment of death. The "inner space" turns into an infinite dimension as the perception of external physical reality ends.
The third phase has five stages:
(1) Everything you perceive from the outside slowly appears as coming from the inside.
(2) What you see outside then emerge just like the light of the moon. As time passes, what you see inside appear like sparks of fire.
(3) What you see outside appear as the light of the sun which slowly becomes dark. Then what you see inside appear as candlelight.
(4) What you see outside appears faint and remote then your consciousness slowly enters the primordial clear light. This is like seeing the light of dawn.
(5) Lastly, consciousness itself appears like the clear sky. With the absence of thought, the primordial clear light now appears, infinite and without a central perspective. If your consciousness is free of karma, you immediately achieve enlightenment, obtain the dharmakaya (truth body), and can stay here within the realm beyond all becoming, the deathless realm. If not, then you will go down to experience the other intermediate states in the Bardo.
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What is The Primordial Clear Light?
The primordial clear light serves a highly important role in the symbolism of the Bardo Thodol. In Tibetan Buddhism, it is considered as the state of pure wisdom and the peak of experience. In Zen Buddhism, the experience of the primordial clear light is regarded as the highest state of meditative experience known as Satori. Others call it "the radiance from the seed of emptiness” or “the primordial wisdom of great bliss.”
The experience of the primordial clear light may be two-fold depending on a person's spiritual attainment:
1. The Primary Clear Light
The primary clear light is the clear untainted light that represents a highly evolved form of the spirit or a clear presence of the totality of consciousness. In the presence of the clear light “all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like unto a transparent vacuum without circumference or centre.”
The primary clear light immediately experienced at the time of death is also equivalent to enlightenment — the highest level of spiritual experience for people in various mystical and spiritual schools — since it is well-known among these circles that consciousness can be transformed into wisdom by means of spiritual practice.
At the time of death, the dead person is reminded by the lama or guru not to let this clear light slip away. A message is repeated many times through the ear of the dead person to abide in this state without being enthralled or mesmerized. If the person's consciousness cannot hold on to this experience because of its overwhelming power, then the secondary clear light will soon appear, which will be followed by the visionary deities.
2. The Secondary Clear Light
The secondary clear light is less intense. While in this state, the person becomes concerned with his or her individuality, but cannot determine whether he or she is dead or not. The consciousness of the dead person drifts within familiar places. It even gets a glimpse of its relatives and people it had been close to as if one is having a lucid dream.
The terrifying karmic apparitions have not yet begun at this point, but will soon start if one's consciousness still cannot hold on to this state. In this case, the dead person is again reminded, through the ritual, not to be distracted and to meditate upon his/her tutelary deity to help focus the mind on the clear light.
I would like to complement, with three good Q/A, from Hidden Hand interview:
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ATS: Are there any non-corrupted parts of the bible and if what bible version would you suggest?
HH: No. As with all Sacred Texts, they have been distorted from the original information that was given with each translation. Though again, as with all Sacred Texts, there is still much truth hidden within them. Much of it being 'metaphorical'. If you can find pre King James versions, that is the closest you will get. Good luck with that.
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ATS: H.H., strangely, my concern is that I will be recycled back onto the wheel of life and be reborn with a new brain and lose everything I have so arduously learned in this life time.
HH: Your Soul remembers everything you've ever experienced. The only reason you don't remember it all now, is due to what we term the "veil of forgetfulness". If you came into each new incarnation with access to your Soul memory, there's no point in your coming into space/time. It would be like playing a computer game with all the cheats. You wouldn't learn anything, and it takes the fun out of playing the game. Remember that this current physical body you carry around with you, is not who you are. It's just the vessel for your essence. Who you are, is Real, and cannot be destroyed. You will retain all your memories of this life experience once you pass onto the realm of time/space, or that which some call "Heaven". space/time is illusion, time/space is Real. That Infinite Being living within and around your "body", namely your Soul, is who you really are. The part of you that thinks, and feels, and loves. It will always be a part of you.
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ATS: So, is the harvest an "all or nothing" event or will it be a mixed harvest—a few moving to fourth density, a few moving towards fourth density in service to self, the great majority repeating third density? And if only 94% go to fourth density negative, then you have to repeat 3rd density and try again for a 95% negative harvest? If so, then I would hate to imagine how much more negative your people would make the earth at that point.
I'm still confused about your part in this. In order for you to move on the 4th level, it must be a 95% negative harvest. In other words, to reward your people with 4th density, 95% of the human souls have to be (in the self-contemplation process) as far away from the "Infinite Source" as humanly possible. That just doesn't "feel" right to me.
HH: It does not 'feel' right to you, as it is not right. You have not entirely grasped the concept. I shall attempt to clarify.
The Harvest is Mixed. Those who are 51% or over on the Positive path will Graduate to 4th Density Positive. There you will work upon Love and Compassion, and it will be a very beautiful world to reside within for you. There will be very little negativity. Just a small enough amount that you can still use it to exercise your Free Will in choosing who you are not, but it will be so much more obvious than it is here, that the negativity is a tool to be used. You will see the interconnectedness of all things, and you will know that you are not 'separate' from one another, or from life Itself. You will not use words much, unless you choose to. Telepathy becomes the normal method of communication. Everything is open, and you cannot hide your thoughts from 'others'.
From that incarnation onwards, you will not have to experience 3rd Density incarnation again, unless you later choose to do so from Higher Densities, as we have done, in order to perfect the art of Service, or unless you somehow, in a 4th Density world of abundant love and beauty, inextricably manage to be 95% Negative at a time of future Harvest, and slide back down the snake, instead of ascending up the ladder, to use another 'Game' metaphor.
Back to 'this' current Great Harvest, we do not require a 95% Negative Harvest, as you have deducted. Instead, what we require, is for US to personally attain a 95% Negative Polarity for ourselves, not for you. WE must be 95% Negative (at least), in order to Graduate to 4th Density Negative, and earn the opportunity to clear our Karmic Record, of all the Negativity we have Created on this planet, before returning to our rightful place as 6th Density Guardians of our Galaxy, and teachers of Wisdom to those in lower Densities that ask for our assistance. If we do not make it, we will remain trapped in the 3rd Density Cycle with all those between 94% Negative and 50% Positive (what I termed 'luke-warm's'), and have to continue to provide Negative Polarity for you. Harsh as it is, our only way out, is to be as Negative as possible, to Graduate. We cannot choose to be Positive, because that is not what we came here to do for you. That's why I often have referred to all the horrible things we've done here, as our Sacrifice.