Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00267)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar" <krishtar_a@b...> wrote:
> We theosophers collect so much writing, so many books, so many 
quotes, give lectures and so on... but at the end ,we´re still afraid 
of this transition called death.

Very interesting point. If you can pin down the origin of your fear 
it should be possible to get rid of it.

To some folks the fear is that their beloved ego will come to an 
end. The solution to this is Buddhist practice, in which one 
gradually surrenders attachment to this delusion during life. Then 
when one dies the ego death is already completed.

To others losing consciousness is what they fear. The solution to 
that is to notice how easy and pleasant it is to drop off to sleep 
every night. Not only is it easy but even welcome after a difficult 
day. Dropping off to sleep after a difficult life (not that anyone I 
know has ever had a difficult life) should be equally pleasant and 
welcome.

To still others the fear may be leaving their bodies. This is not an 
easy thing to accomplish, but it is possible to have the out of body 
experience without the need for dying first. There are plenty of 
books out there to tell you how to do it. The cynics may scoff, but 
knowledgeable psychologists are agreed that people do have this 
experience. What is in dispute is whether the experience is what it 
appears to be or whether it is some sort of hallucination. Only the 
misinformed (theosophists and other misinformed people) doubt that 
people do have this experience.

Still others fear going to hell. All I can say to that is, THEY 
SHOULDN'T HAVE PISSED ME OFF WHILE THEY WERE STILL ALIVE. At least 
the people they meet in hell will probably me more interesting and 
colorful than the ones the rest of us will have to put up with in 
heaven. I have nightmares about heaven looking like some sort of bad 
movie from the fifties. If heaven is as boring as that Baptist 
summer camp I had to put up with when I was a kid, I think I will opt 
for swift reincarnation. Or physical immortality in this life.

See you in a thousand years.