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What Happens in the Afterlife . and the Purpose of Purgatory and Hell . by C.W. Leadbeater

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Written and published on 27 July 2016

  • LIFE IN THE ASTRAL WORLD AFTER DEATH
  • THE DRUNKARD OR SENSUALIST’S EXPERIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE
  • WHY SUICIDE OR SUDDEN DEATH CAUSES SUFFERING IN THE AFTERLIFE
    • When Those who Suddenly Die Have Lived a Pure and Noble Life
    • When Those who Suddenly Die Have Lived a Low and Brutal Life
    • The Difficulty that Suicides Have in Transcending the Astral Plane
  • THE PURPOSE OF PURGATORIAL AND HELLWORLD SUFFERING
  • DANGERS POSED BY HELL-BOUND SOULS TO EMBODIED HUMANS

Dear Ones,

Here are excerpts from the writings of the learned Theosophist C.W. Leadbeater, written in the late 1890s and early 1900s.

LIFE IN THE ASTRAL WORLD AFTER DEATH

“The conditions of life after death are almost infinite in their variety, but they can be calculated without difficulty by any one who will take the trouble to understand the astral world and to consider the character of the person concerned. That character is not in the slightest degree changed by death; the man’s thoughts, emotions and desires are exactly the same as before. He is in every way the same man, minus his physical body; and his happiness or misery depends upon the extent to which this loss of the physical body affects him.

“If his longings have been such as need a physical body for their gratification, he is likely to suffer considerably. Such a craving manifests itself as a vibration in the astral body, and while we are still in this world most of its strength is employed in setting in motion the heavy physical particles. Desire is therefore a far greater force in the astral life than in the physical, and if the man has not been in the habit of controlling it, and if in this new life it cannot be satisfied, it may cause him great and long-continued trouble.” (1)

THE DRUNKARD OR SENSUALIST’S EXPERIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE

“Take as an illustration the extreme case of a drunkard or a sensualist. Here we have a lust which has been strong enough during physical life to overpower reason, common sense and all the feelings of decency and of family affection. After death the man finds himself in the astral world feeling the appetite perhaps a hundred times more strongly, yet absolutely unable to satisfy it because he has lost the physical body.

“Such a life is a very real hell—the only hell there is; yet no one is punishing him; he is reaping the perfectly natural result of his own action. Gradually as time passes this force of desire wears out, but only at the cost of terrible suffering for the man, because to him every day seems as a thousand years. He has no measure of time such as we have in the physical world. He can measure it only by his sensations. From a distortion of this fact has come the blasphemous idea of eternal damnation.

“Many other cases less extreme than this will readily suggest themselves, in which a hankering which cannot be fulfilled may prove itself a torture.” (1)

WHY SUICIDE OR SUDDEN DEATH CAUSES SUFFERING IN THE AFTERLIFE

“It will be readily understood that a man who is torn from physical life hurriedly while in full health and strength, whether by accident or suicide, finds himself upon the astral plane under conditions differing considerably from those which surround one who dies either from old age or from disease.

“In the latter case the hold of earthly desires upon the entity is more or less weakened, and probably the very grossest particles are already got rid of, so that the Kâmarûpa [the “desire body”, seat of animal desires and passions – Wikipedia] will most likely form itself on the sixth or fifth subdivision of [39] the Kâmaloka, [beings in the Kâmalokic areas of the astral plane haven’t yet shaken free of desire (Kâma). In the Catholic Church this, the ‘edge of Hell’, is termed ‘Limbus’ or ‘Limbo’ (2) –Alice].  or perhaps even higher; the principles have been gradually prepared for separation, and the shock is therefore not so great.

“In the case of the accidental death or suicide none of these preparations have taken place, and the withdrawal of the principles from their physical encasement has been very aptly compared to the tearing of the stone out of an unripe fruit; a great deal of the grossest kind of astral matter still clings around the personality, which is consequently held in the seventh or lowest subdivision of the Kâmaloka. This has already been described as anything but a pleasant abiding-place, yet it is by no means the same for all those who are compelled for a time to inhabit it.” (3)

When Those who Suddenly Die Have Lived a Pure and Noble Life

“Those victims of sudden death whose earth-lives have been pure and noble have no affinity for this plane, and the time of their sojourn upon it is passed, to quote from an early Letter on this subject, either ‘in happy ignorance and full oblivion, or in a state of quiet slumber, a sleep full of rosy dreams’.” (3)

When Those who Suddenly Die Have Lived a Low and Brutal Life

“But on the other hand, if their earth-lives have been low and brutal, selfish and sensual, they will, like the suicides, be conscious to the fullest extent in this undesirable region; and they are liable to develop into terribly evil entities.

“Inflamed with all kinds of horrible appetites which they can no longer satisfy directly now they are without a physical body, they gratify their loathsome passions vicariously through a medium or any sensitive person whom they can obsess; and they take a devilish delight in using all the arts of delusion which the astral plane puts in their power in order to lead others into the same excesses which have proved so fatal to themselves.

“Quoting again from the same letter:—’These are the Pisâchas the incubi and succubæ of mediæval writers—demons of thirst and gluttony, of lust and avarice, of intensified craft, wickedness and cruelty, provoking their victims to horrible crimes, and revelling in their commission.'” [40].

“From this class and the last are drawn the tempters—the devils of ecclesiastical literature; but their power fails utterly before purity of mind and purpose; they can do nothing with a man unless he has first encouraged in himself the vices into which they seek to draw him.

“One whose psychic sight has been opened will often see crowds of these unfortunate creatures hanging round butchers’ shops, public-houses, or other even more disreputable places—wherever the gross influences in which they delight are to be found, and where they encounter men and women still in the flesh who are like-minded with themselves.

“For such an entity as one of these to meet with a medium with whom he is in affinity is indeed a terrible misfortune; not only does it enable him to prolong enormously his dreadful life in Kâmaloka but it renews for perhaps an indefinite period his power to generate evil Karma, and so prepare for himself a future incarnation of the most degraded character, besides running the risk of losing a large portion or even the whole of the lower Manas.

“On this lowest level of the astral plane he must stay at least as long as his earthly life would have lasted if it had not been prematurely cut short; and if he is fortunate enough not to meet with a sensitive through whom his passions can be vicariously gratified, the unfulfilled desires will gradually burn themselves out, and the suffering caused in the process will probably go far towards working off the evil Karma of the past life.” (3)

The Difficulty that Suicides Have in Transcending the Astral Plane

“The position of the suicide is further complicated by the fact that his rash act has enormously diminished the power of the higher Ego to withdraw its lower portion into itself, and therefore has exposed him to manifold and great additional dangers: but it must be remembered that the guilt of suicide differs considerably according to its circumstances, from the morally blameless act of Seneca or Socrates [41] through all degrees down to the heinous crime of the wretch who takes his own life in order to escape from the entanglements into which his villainy has brought him, and of course the position after death varies accordingly.” (3)

THE PURPOSE OF PURGATORIAL AND HELLWORLD SUFFERING

“On this lowest level of the astral plane he must stay at least as long as his earthly life would have lasted if it had not been prematurely cut short; and if he is fortunate enough not to meet with a sensitive through whom his passions can be vicariously gratified, the unfulfilled desires will gradually burn themselves out, and the suffering caused in the process will probably go far towards working off the evil Karma of the past life.” (3)

DANGERS POSED BY HELL-BOUND SOULS TO EMBODIED HUMANS

“It should be noted that this class, as well as the shades and the vitalized shells, are all what may be called minor vampires; that is to say, whenever they have the opportunity they prolong their existence by draining away the vitality from human beings whom they find themselves able to influence. This is why both medium and sitters are often so weak and exhausted after a physical séance.

“A student of occultism is taught how to guard himself from their attempts, but without that knowledge it is difficult for one who puts himself in their way to avoid being more or less laid under contribution by them.” (3)

The above were excerpts from the writings of the learned Theosophist C.W. Leadbeater, written in the late 1890s and early 1900s.

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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FOOTNOTES

(1) from Link: “A Textbook of Theosophy,” by C.W. Leadbeater. (2004). Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 27 July 2016, from http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12902 … Paragraphing and subheads are mine. –Alice Clagett

(2) “In the theology of the Catholic Church, Limbo (Latin limbus, edge or boundary, referring to the “edge” of Hell) is a speculative idea about the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned .” … from Link: “Limbo” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo … Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

(3) from Link: “The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants, and Phenomena,” by C.W. Leadbeater. (2007). Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 27 July 2016, from http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21080 … Paragraphing and subheads are mine. –Alice Clagett

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Groups and Acting Out During This Transitional Ascension Phase . by Alice B. Clagett

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Filmed on 7 March 2016; published on 14 March 2016; transcribed on 5 June 2019

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Groups and the Eighth Chakra Bow-Tie: The Pitfall of Following the Subconscious Mental Suggestions of a Group Leader
    • On Making Independent Decisions
    • On Avoiding Criminal Actions
    • On Avoiding Irreversible Fatal Actions
    • On Recognizing and Countermanding Untoward Dictates from Leaders
    • The Folly of Ceding Our Power to Authoritarian Leaders
    • Conclusion
    • Postlude: Music of Chris Zabriskie and Photos from a Flower Garden
  • MORE INFORMATION

Dear Ones,

This is a video about groups and grouping and the eight chakra bow-tie (the group glom effect).

The soothing instrumental music in the postlude of the video is “Prelude No. 20” from the album “Preludes” by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0.

There is an edited Summary after the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

A minute ago the sunshine was dazzling, and now it is about to start raining here. That is very unusual … pretty welcome too.

Groups and the Eighth Chakra Bow-Tie: The Pitfall of Following the Subconscious Mental Suggestions of a Group Leader

I have something to explain that I have finally found out about groups and grouping and the eighth chakra bow-tie. It has been blogged before on my website … see these blog categories: 08th chakra  … and …  Bow-tie knot  … so you could look under those categories for the background information.

This new information is pretty important for almost everyone on Earth right now, and it goes something like this …

We are all rising to consciousness on the astral plane. This plane is that of the emotional body. Thus conversations on the astral plane, which I sometimes term ‘clair chatter’, have very little in the way of mental thoughts in it. And conversations on the physical plane … as when we chat on the phone or in person … are a mixture of mental and emotional.

So what is happening is that, as groups are expanding into Awareness of their astral bodies … which are more refined energies than the physical body … everyone is becoming clair: clairaudient, clairvoyant, and all those other clair abilities.

And so one of the first things that seems to happen for groups is that the followers in a group … not the leader but the followers … are the first to become clairaudient. And what they are hearing are the daydreams of their leader; the daydreams that the leader is feeling due to unresolved Soul wounding, generally.

Now the problem with groups, in the physical reality right now, at the beginning of the Great Age of Light, is that they have become accustomed to following the subliminal commands of group leaders … which may be why the advice was put out by other Ascension teachers last year, to try to steer clear of groups. As we become more clair, and before we reach the level of the integration of the physical and the astral plane … the third and fourth dimensions … as followers of groups we can be led into acting out behaviors by suggestions that are really daydreams of the leader of a group.

On Making Independent Decisions

From this astral story … even assuming that there is the smallest thread of truth in it, I gathered with some forcefulness how important it might be to develop a sense right away … right now … of who we are, and of making our own decisions, and not following the subliminal suggestions of group leaders; especially for groups that are used to blindly following the advice of their leaders, and for which there is not much democratic choice. It is very important to switch gears right now, and instead consult our own higher levels … our own higher energies … and find out whether or not we should act in the world in a certain way.

On Avoiding Criminal Actions

In the past, I have given this general rule of thumb, and that is: Just do not do anything criminal …

Link: “Criminal Minds Have Criminal Thoughts,” an affirmation by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 7 November 2015; published on 15 November 2015 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-4ig ..

Do not do anything that is against the law, because the repercussions are rather severe, if a person does criminal activities and then that is found out by law enforcement. It is very important to toe the line right now. That is the first thing.

On Avoiding Irreversible Fatal Actions

In addition, do not do anything that cannot be revoked, such as taking someone’s life, or taking one’s own life, or anything of that nature; nothing that is so final as that.

Keeping in mind this is only a skit that is taking place, within the context of our many Higher Selves … see blog category: Physical body and subtle bodies … I mean, there are 72 dimensions … see my blog category: Dimensions … the third and fourth dimensions are getting this kind of difficult choices (but very important choices at this moment in time).

Whether we lose form or we do not lose form, is not as important as we think it is, because we exist in so many different dimensions and timelines. But nevertheless, what a waste of a wonderful physical body, to make some decisions based on the notion that the leader knows the right thing to do, and is telling us that … when, in fact, the leader may not have arisen to that awareness yet; the followers are arising to that awareness first.

On Recognizing and Countermanding Untoward Dictates from Leaders

My suggestion is: If you start hearing things from your leader that sound a little odd, that do not sound as if they fall within the normal range of the leader’s preogatives, the thing to do is to sit down and talk with them on the physical plane. Find out if it was a daydream or something true. And that way I think we can get through this situation much more gracefully and easily.

It is hard for followers, very hard, because we are dealing with the feral drives, the primate and pack instincts, which have been operating through the unconscious thought cloud of the world for all these 11,000 years … to teach us many Soul lessons, of course … but right now, the thing to do is to stand back, and consider why we are taking certain actions, and to try … with our higher consciousness, our Christ consciousness … to consider what Christ would do. Or if Christ is not our leader, then perhaps follow the Ten Commandments of Moses, who, I feel, thought very hard about what is needed to get along in the civilized world, in a group; and in conjunction with other groups too, as the situation is today.

It is not like there is just one pack right now, and everybody has to toe the line. Instead, there are many, many packs, and they all have to get along pretty much together. And the way that functions is through the law … and to take it a step higher, through our own higher consciousness and our own notion of loving, Christ consciousness and Christ Awareness.

We have to find the middle ground, where we do not react to the leaders, but instead, stand back, in our own light of higher consciousness, and decide whether we should be doing something or not.

The Folly of Ceding Our Power to Authoritarian Leaders

We may be determined to follow the leaders. I suggest that is not such a good idea right now because of the misunderstandings that can come up, because of the glom effect, and because it is harder to clear when we follow leaders … even family leaders or leaders of spiritual groups; any kind of leaders, right now. The thing to do is to stand back, and not do that so much as before; to realize that we have come into our own wisdom … our Soul wisdom … and that we can find that path ourselves.

It may come out, in your group, that some people act out in a very upsetting way, and that the responsibility for that lies, in a way, with the leader, because the leader has been daydreaming. But the true responsibility for each person on Earth has to do with their own Soul, and their own wisdom. We cannot really blame it on the leaders. We have to take responsibility for every act of our own, in the world.

That is the dynamic, though: The dynamic is that the suggestion is by the leader, in an unconscious or subconscious way, and that the followers … thinking that it is the right thing to do, even though it is exceedingly unusual, perhaps … are actually doing the thing.

Conclusion

Well, you all take care. I am glad that this has been found out. And I hope it will be easier for each succeeding group that is ascending to not act out; and to realize their own greatness, without that group glom effect.

You all take care. Love you all lots. I wish you the very highest and the very best.

Postlude: Music of Chris Zabriskie and Photos from a Flower Garden

[The postlude features the soothing instrumental “Prelude No. 20” from the album “Preludes” by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0, along with photos from a flower garden (see below).]

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

The photos from the video are here … Link: “Flower Garden,” photos by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 7 March 2016; published on 22 May 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-igl ..

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MORE INFORMATION

See also … Link: “The ‘Power Over’ Video Series,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 24 January 2015; transcribed on 31 May 2018; revised on 28 January 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-4bQ … See the section: Power Over 5: Rules of the Alpha Male: The Old Boys’ Club

There is a more polished version of the topic of the above video … Link: “Acting Out by Followers When a Group Leader Makes a Subconscious Suggestion,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 7 March 2016; published on 14 March 2016; transcribed on 5 June 2016; revised on 22 May 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-4ZP ..

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Acting Out by Followers When a Group Leader Makes a Subconscious Suggestion . by Alice B. Clagett *

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Filmed on 7 March 2016; published on 14 March 2016; transcribed on 5 June 2016; revised on 22 May 2020
Previously titled: Acting Out by Followers on a Group Leader’s Subconscious Suggestion

  • THE EMOTIONAL DISCONNECT ON THE ASTRAL PLANE
  • GROUPS, SUBLIMINAL SUGGESTIONS, AND SUBCONSCIOUS ASSUMPTIONS
  • A VISUALIZATION REGARDING THE GROUP GLOM EFFECT
  • ON ‘ACTING OUT’ BY FOLLOWERS
  • SELF-EMPOWERMENT AND THE NEW GROUPS OF EARTH

Dear Ones,

This is a video about groups and grouping and the eight chakra bow-tie (the group glom effect).

THE EMOTIONAL DISCONNECT ON THE ASTRAL PLANE

When a person is first rising to clairaudient awareness, their conversations on the astral plane are mainly emotional, with not much mental matter in them. At that time of arising, the person is creating unconscious, emotional clair ‘stories’ or ‘skits’. Often these skits express emotions that are repressed because of societal expectations.

Conversations on physical plane … such as on the phone or in person … have a mixture of astral and emotional influences. These are the conversations of which we are aware; the sort of conversation we could most likely recap or summarize if the need arises.

When I rose to awareness on both the astral and the physical plane, it became clear to me that there is a great void or chasm between the astral stories … the daydreams or nighttime dreams of humankind … and the physical human conversations taking place in the world, on the phone or in person. The chasm is, in fact, shocking to me.

There are, it seems, great hidden wells or reservoirs, deep pits or threads or sacks of negative emotional energies such as fear and anger and hatred, dread and sorrow, despair and unfulfilled longing,  in the unconscious thought cloud of the world. My feeling is, this is because many people on Earth today have an ’emotional disconnect’. In other words, their feelings are repressed, and not expressed in their everyday conversations.

GROUPS, SUBLIMINAL SUGGESTIONS, AND SUBCONSCIOUS ASSUMPTIONS

As groups arise to consciousness of the astral plane, it seems to be the norm that the followers first become clairaudient. What they begin to hear are the subliminal suggestions of the leader of a group. These subliminal suggestions spring forth from the leader’s Soul wounding … the shadow of his personality.

Groups are based on the subconscious assumption that the followers will do as the leader says. Consequently, all these many years of the Age of Darkness that just now ended, the followers of groups have subconsciously followed the subliminal suggestions of their leaders.

In this short transitional stage of Ascension, as followers begin to arise to consciousness on the astral plane, they are becoming aware of their leader’s shadow-world suggestions, which previously simply ‘flowed through’ from his or her subconscious mind to theirs.

Last year, some of the Ascension teachers offered the advice that it would be best to steer clear of groups for the time being. However, this advice did not reach many ears, and those that it reached often chose to set it aside. Even now, some of the Ascension teachers are ‘grouping’ together still. I feel that is because grouping is a very difficult thing to avoid in the third dimension.

So now, as the Incoming Light stirs up the Soul wounding … the shadow side of each of us … group leaders’ daydreams, for instance regarding the feral drives and the primate pack instincts … which are perceived by the followers as subliminal suggestions … can become more agitated, just at the time that the rising-up group followers are beginning to consciously clair-hear their leaders’ shadowside suggestions.

These subconscious suggestions, when they reach the followers, constitute what I have previously referred to as the ‘eighth chakra bow-tie’ … Our eighth chakra has the metaprogram that controls our own astral play. The knot is tied there by our own decision to align with the subconscious suggestions of the group leader.

A VISUALIZATION REGARDING THE GROUP GLOM EFFECT

Another name for this knotting effect is ‘the group glom effect’. One might visualize an umbrella …

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Imagine that the central rod of the umbrella is the group leader. This includes the handle at the bottom of the umbrella (the ‘moniker’ or ‘handle’ of the group) as well as the spiked peak at the very apex of the umbrella (that which has top position in the apparatus). So, the leader is central to the group, and the group goes by his or her moniker or handle, and the leader is the person who is ‘on top’ of everyone else.

Now imagine that the little spikes at the ends of each of the spines of the umbrella are the followers …

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On the underside of the umbrella … the side that nobody usually sees … are the struts that keep it structurally strong. These are like the subconscious assumptions of a group, for example, the giving away of the power of each follower to the group leader. Or they might be visualized as the subliminal suggestions of the leader of the group, that keep the group acting ‘as one’.

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When the umbrella is closed, the leader is not making subliminal suggestions. The ‘glom effect’ of the hidden struts is latent, but not actually being experienced by followers.

When the umbrella is open, then we might figure it is raining … the leader feels that the group needs to be ‘protected from the elements’ … which are typically outgroup individuals or other groups. The subconscious suggestions are in place, the umbrella is open, defending the group from the rain, and the ‘glom effect’ is occurring.

ON ‘ACTING OUT’ BY FOLLOWERS

Essentially, then, when we participate in groups, our free will is tangled or tied up by our loyalty to another human being … the group leader. If this human being is not in alignment with God’s mind, God’s heart, and God’s will, if the leader has a shadow side not yet resolved in the Light through God’s blessing, then the followers will also necessarily stray from alignment with Divine. In such a situation, the followers are in danger of carrying out the Soul-wounded suggestions of the leaders, either on the astral plane or on the physical plane. In instances where followers ‘act out’ in previously unaccountable ways, this may be the cause.

Then comes the moment when a follower realizes that the suggestions of the leader have been subconscious, and that it is the follower who must be held accountable for this, in some instances violent, acting out behavior. Then the follower may experience a sense of betrayal by the leader.

This is not in fact so. The follower has not been betrayed by the leader. Rather, it is the follower who has set aside his or her own free will, during the long Age of Darkness, in order to experience the Duality Play. And so, the acting out that transpires in a group setting in this transitional phase of Ascension must be held in a way that empowers each actor in the Play. We are, each of us, responsible for our actions in the world. We are, each of us, responsible for that which may be termed ‘acting out’ as well.

On the other hand, the timeline in which we act out is only one of many timelines and dimensions simultaneously being played out by our Eternal Soul. At any moment, we can jump from the ‘acting out’ timeline to one where the actions have been more in line with societal expectations. (For this, see the blog category ‘timelines’.)

This is not to say that we ought to act out … in a perhaps violent manner … on either the physical or the astral plane. Nor is it to say that we may feel free to do so, just because the karmic consequences can be avoided or delayed by timeline jumping. But rather, I say that, should we be caught unawares in this transitional phase, then it is possible, through God’s blessing, to overcome this karmic burden by optimizing our timelines.

SELF-EMPOWERMENT AND THE NEW GROUPS OF EARTH

Typically, after the awakening of followers, next will come the awakening of the group leader to his or her shadow side. At that point I believe it may be possible for groups to function safely together on New Earth … as long as everyone is aware of what were previously unconscious thought processes, and as long as free will and self-empowerment are normed by the group.

My feeling is that the general rule for all people in groups right now might be: Don’t do anything criminal, because social repercussions can be severe. In particular, do not kill anyone, and do not commit suicide. We all exist on many timelines and in many dimensions, and so life or death are not as important as we think. Nevertheless, why waste this precious incarnation into physical form?

Let us stand back with our higher consciousness, and consider: What would Christ do in this situation? Or, What would Moses do in this situation?

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

See also … Link: “The ‘Power Over’ Video Series,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 24 January 2015; transcribed on 31 May 2018; revised on 28 January 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-4bQ … See the section: Power Over 5: Rules of the Alpha Male: The Old Boys’ Club

An earlier blog described the topic of groups and acting out according to the subconscious suggestion of group leaders. The transcription includes as an example an astral story about the murder mystery of Dylan Redwine … Link: “Groups and Acting Out During This Transitional Ascension Phase,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 7 March 2016; published on 14 March 2016; transcribed on 5 June 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-d2B ..

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Free Will and the All . by Alice B. Clagett *

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01Filmed on 1 March 2016; published on 12 March 2016

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Free Will on Planet Earth
      • Angel on One Shoulder, and Devil on the Other?
      • Diversity of Life on Earth
      • Ascension Casts Our Free Will Choices in Stark Relief
      • Consequentialism: The Notion That the Ends Justify the Means
      • Choices: Service to Self, Service to Ingroup; Service to the World
      • Life Review
    • The All and the Eternal Now
      • There Is No Ingroup
      • Ascension Skills: True Compassion
      • Interspecies Communication
    • Photos by Alice
  • MORE INFORMATION

Dear Ones,

This is about the two tenets of life on this planet: Free Will and the All. Also discussed: Having a ‘masterplan’. Does the end justify the means? There is an edited Summary after the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

I would just like to talk to you a little bit today about the two tenets of life on this planet, which are: Free will and the All. Starting with free will …

Free Will on Planet Earth

One of the most interesting features of this planet … because of the 11,000-year intervals that it spends not within the Photon Belt of the Pleiades … is the diversity of choices that are available here because of the Soul wounding that occurs; the closing down of the axiatonal lines of Light; the tangles that develop in the Body of Light; inability to connect with the Star Library in Alpha Centauri; and a general disconnect from our star brethren of many different civilizations and cultures, that leads us to a foreshortened notion of history, and of our choices during these long Ages of Darkness, from one of which we have just emerged.

We have these many choices, basically based on what Patanjali calls Soul ignorance. So something may look very good to us, as a choice, and in fact lead us away from an understanding of our Soul purpose and our Soul wisdom. It may lead us out of alignment with God, and with the All (which I will be discussing in a minute). This happens because we have free will.

There are beings that settled on this planet that further the possibilities of Duality during the Dark Ages. They do not do well here during the Ages of Light; my understanding is that they are shunted off to astral negative worlds and planets in other constellations during the times of Light. But they are here for a purpose during the times of Light; and that is to increase the possibility of Soul learning through duality.

Angel on One Shoulder, and Devil on the Other? You may have seen those pictures of people with an angel on one shoulder and a little devil on the other shoulder, each whispering into one of the person’s ears, of which this image is reminiscent …

Image: "The Right Ear Hears Conscious Thoughts, and the Left Ear Hears Subconscious Thoughts," by Alice B. Clagett, 7 March 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, from "Awakening with Planet Earth," https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ... DESCRIPTION: A man's head, sketched above an effected and reversed painting portraying the Biblical scene of Jacob wrestling with the angel. Jacob, on the right in the reversed painting, has a red robe on. Above his head is an arrow pointing to the left ear of the sketched head of the man above the painting (which is to the right, from the stance of the viewer). That ear is labeled "Left ear: Subconscious thoughts." The angel with whom Jacob wrestles, on the left in the reversed painting, has a white robe on. Above his head is an arrow pointing to the right ear of the sketched head of the man above the painting (which is to the left, from the stance of the viewer). That ear is labeled "Right ear: Conscious thoughts" ... CREDIT: The painting is "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel," by Alexander Louis Leloir, 1865, from Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

Image Markup: “The Right Ear Hears Conscious Thoughts, and the Left Ear Hears Subconscious Thoughts,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 March 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: A man’s head, sketched above an effected and reversed painting portraying the Biblical scene of Jacob wrestling with the angel. Jacob, on the right in the reversed painting, has a red robe on. Above his head is an arrow pointing to the left ear of the sketched head of the man above the painting (which is to the right, from the stance of the viewer). That ear is labeled “Left ear: Subconscious thoughts.” The angel with whom Jacob wrestles, on the left in the reversed painting, has a white robe on. Above his head is an arrow pointing to the right ear of the sketched head of the man above the painting (which is to the left, from the stance of the viewer). That ear is labeled “Right ear: Conscious thoughts” … CREDIT: The painting is “Jacob Wrestling with the Angel,” by Alexander Louis Leloir, 1865, from Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

Image Markup: “The Right Ear Hears Conscious Thoughts, and the Left Ear Hears Subconscious Thoughts,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 March 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … 

DESCRIPTION: A man’s head, sketched above an effected and reversed painting portraying the Biblical scene of Jacob wrestling with the angel. Jacob, on the right in the reversed painting, has a red robe on. Above his head is an arrow pointing to the left ear of the sketched head of the man above the painting (which is to the right, from the stance of the viewer). That ear is labeled “Left ear: Subconscious thoughts.” The angel with whom Jacob wrestles, on the left in the reversed painting, has a white robe on. Above his head is an arrow pointing to the right ear of the sketched head of the man above the painting (which is to the left, from the stance of the viewer). That ear is labeled “Right ear: Conscious thoughts” … 

CREDIT: The painting is “Jacob Wrestling with the Angel,” by Alexander Louis Leloir, 1865, from Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

Diversity of Life on Earth. That is just a visualization of the choices available through duality. But it also has within it the two different types of beings that are here on Earth. We have the Angelic Realm … and the Devic Realm is part of that. The nature spirits are part of the Angelic Realm as well; although they comprise a separate, very varied, Devic Kingdom.

Then we have the ifrits and the jinn; and the demon world. All of those are based on the notion of power over others. It can be very compelling, very interesting to choose that, because it seems that, in the short run, there is something really important in it. And so, people do make those choices during the Ages of Darkness.

Ascension Casts Our Free Will Choices in Stark Relief. Right now they are emerging from that. One of the features of the Ascension process … the Ascension into the Age of Light … is that the choice between Dark and Light becomes much more dramatic. There is a purpose for that: It is so that it will become very apparent to people that they have that choice. And so, people will be choosing either something very dramatic, like serial killing or suicide, or all kinds of things that would before have been completely impossible for them to think of, or they will be very strongly choosing alignment with the Divine. That is because nothing is definite right now; everything is in process, in flux. And a kind of mental chaos is occurring all over Earth, as people come back into their powers and their Ascension skills, and begin to realize that they are one with everything.

So these choices are available: We can choose to go off-world, to astral negative planets, along with the Demon Realm, which is there to help us make these decisions and choices, along with the Angelic Realm. Or we can choose to stay on Ascended Earth, and that is a completely different choice.

Note well: These are ideational choices … to do with astral or dreamtime stories that will be co-creating the New Reality. In almost every instance, they are not about ‘acting out’ these themes in the physical world.

Consequentialism: The Notion That the Ends Justify the Means. One of the things that is coming up right now, has to do with this free will choice. It has to do with the notion … kind of a Himler or Hitler notion … that the ends justify the means. Remember, Hitler had a very beautiful notion about a master race on Earth … about a master plan, and how everything was going to be better because he was going to eliminate all the bad things. And he was going to do that through killing people that he thought were inferior.

This thought that the ends justify the means is something to consider, because we confront it every day, in our daily lives. I will say to somebody: It would be even better if you lived in the country.

And they will say: I can’t because I have to make a living!

And this is just one example of the constant ‘I can’ts’ and ‘I won’ts’ that do not allow people to accumulate more Light. Instead, they want to accumulate more Darkness. It depends on the person … some people are fine in the city.

Do the ends justify the means? What is it that we really want? Do we want to accomplish our Soul mission, and follow our Soul purpose? Or do we want to do something for ourselves, for our family, that will not allow us live to our highest Light?

Is it worth it, say, to do something extremely bad, like what happened in the concentration camps, and is happening in many places, right now, because of the Ascension process?

Is it ok to do that, if it justifies some high cause, such as keeping someone alive that we really love, for instance … because prices are really high right now.

Or is it ok to do that kind of work because we have to pay the rent, and rents are very high? You know? … the kind of work that tears down other people’s good, or competes with other people, instead of bringing on harmony of the Universe … that kind of work.

Choices: Service to Self, Service to Ingroup; Service to the World. Are we willing to injure other people so that our ingroup can be ok? Well in past ages, in the Age of Darkness, the answer was definitely ‘yes’. The answer was: The people in my family are more important than anyone else in the world … The people in my village will help support me against the barbarian hordes, and I will help them out too … Like that, right?

And people that were considered to be the outgroup, in the old days did not even have a chance. You sacrificed the outgroup; you kept the ingroup. And the concept of in-or-outgroup was the thing you really cared about.

The history of kings, in Europe, is a saga about that. Even in their own families they would kill, just to maintain their own personal highest welfare … Killed their brothers and sisters over and over again, so that there would be no contenders for the throne.

This is an extreme example of free will, and choosing on the basis, not of society or civilization, or the upliftment of the world, but instead, choosing only for oneself.

Life Review. I am asking you to look at that today: How is your life being lived? What is it that you truly want? Do you want to align with God? Or do you want to take on a purpose that has to do with your personal desires and needs, or those of your family, or those of someone that you really cherish; and do you want to just say: To heck with what society teaches about getting along with other people … about things like the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife … and all those things like that; those things that were hammered out in the old, tribal days, as ways for society to continue onward.

What is it that you really want? Do you want the ends to be more important than the means? Or do you want the harmony of the All?

The All and the Eternal Now

There Is No Ingroup. And so now we are coming down to the harmony of the All. That has to do with ingroup – outgroup, and the way that we think about the world. As it turns out, there is no ingroup; there is no outgroup. There is no special treatment for people that are very rich, or very powerful, or who think very well of themselves for no particular reason at all.

Ascension Skills: True Compassion. Here in the noosphere we feel in our own physical bodies, as the Ascension proceeds, the suffering, the anguish of what was once called the ‘huddled masses’; of the people in prison; of the people who are dying in hospitals; of the newborn children, who do not yet know where or what is going on.

We are that. This is an Ascension skill that will change everyone’s mind about ingroups and outgroups, and the means and the ends. We are that. And far more than these beings known as humankind, in this colony called Earth.

Interspecies Communication. There are many other peoples here. There are many other beings here: Four-footed, two-footed, and feathered beings; all kinds of beings, here on Earth. And there are many more beings amongst the stars, and amongst our ancestors, and in our future kin, all of which are One, in the Eternal Now, which is the All.

Enough lectures! [waves] You all take care. Love you lots.

Photos by Alice

Image: “Amsinckia (Fiddlenecks) 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Image: “Amsinckia (Fiddlenecks) 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Image: “Amsinckia (Fiddlenecks) 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Image: “Amsinckia (Fiddlenecks) 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Image: “Amsinckia (Fiddlenecks) 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Image: “Amsinckia (Fiddlenecks) 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Image: “Amsinckia (Fiddlenecks) 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Image: “Amsinckia (Fiddlenecks) 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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Link: “Heinrich Himmler,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler ..

LInk: “Political Views of Adolf Hitler,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Adolf_Hitler ..

Link: “Ten Commandments,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments ..
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Sudden Death by Accident or Suicide . by the Theosophists . referral by Alice B. Clagett

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Written and published on 18 July 2015; revised on 28 November 2018

Dear Ones,

There are some good passages regarding sudden death by accident or suicide in the School of Theosophy book “The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena,” compiled by Arthur E. Powell …

Link:  “The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena,” compiled by Arthur E. Powell, published 1927, Quest Book edition 1973, copyright The Theosophical Publishing House, London, Ltd. 1965 … See “Chapter XV: The After-Death Life: Special Cases,”  page 136, the first paragraph beginning “There is practically …” through page 138, the third paragraph ending “… as circumstances permit.”

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars
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