Theos-Talk Archives (July 2000 Message tt00038)

July 18th

Accidental deaths, are not impelled by the same motive as a n
attempt at suicide.  Karma will be different.  Accidents come
about as a result of past karma of course, as everything is
related to Karma.  ( See SD
I 653,  II 560 )  Nothing comes by chance.

NDE are reported by those to whom they are important as
opportunities to review one's life and motives.  They indicate a
permanence that survives physical death and give hope for
continuation of life as a MIND-BEING.  If One decides to return
into the body, then a change in attitude may become noticeable -
a serenity, a lack of anxiety as to the mystery to death.  One no
longer dears it any more than going to sleep is fearful or
terrible.

NDE experiences are not common, or perhaps we ought to say not
frequently remembered.  Those who remember have some
consideration to do and that can only be resolved personally.

A knowledge of Theosophical Psychology and the 7-fold nature of
man and his consciousness is a most useful tool to possess.

Those who are accident victims and cannot or do not return to
conscious life, we are told, may spend a length of time
equivalent to that which they would have lived in the body in a
"sleeping" or torpid state.  When the normal time to die arrives
the process of death starts and Kama-local and Devachan are a
normal part of that, followed, then, by rebirth in the normal
way.

Our sense of time does not prevail there any more than it does
when we dream enormous detail of condition and action in the few
seconds of actual dreaming experience, compared with our
conscious processes when we are "awake," and thinking about what
we perceive.  As a correspondence:  One eats a meal quickly, but
it takes many hours to digest it.

Best wishes,


D. T. B.

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-----Original Message-----
From: A H
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:13 AM

 Subject: [bn-basic] A question on accidental deaths

If the victims of accidental death, like suicides, do not enter
Devachan
until the time when they would have died naturally, why then do
certain
people who have attempted suicide (but failed) or were severely
injured  in
a car accident for example still report the usual tunnel
experience of
traditional NDE's?  Shouldn't they instead be 'somewhere' in Kama
Loka?

Angel Hazen

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