Theos-Talk Archives (April 2007 Message tt00018)

According to the Eastern teaching, the state of the deceased in Kama-
loka is not what we, living men, would recognise as "conscious." . . . 
the process of stripping off the lower . . . principles is an 
unconscious one in all normal human beings.   It is only in very 
exceptional cases that there is a slight return to consciousness in 
Kama-loka; and this is the case of very materialistic unspiritual 
personalities.  . . . 

There can be no conscious meeting in Kamaloka hence no grief. . . . in 
Kamaloka there is as a rule (apart from vicarious life and 
consciousness awakened through contact with medium) no recognition of 
friends or relatives. . . . We meet those we loved only in 
Devachan. . . . 

H.P. Blavatsky, Collected Writings, volume IX, pp. 163-164.