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Why We Experience Telepathy as Mind Control 2. by Alice B. Clagett

  • WHY WE EXPERIENCE TELEPATHY AS MIND CONTROL
  • WHAT CAUSES FRONTAL IMBALANCE IN A TELEPATHIC SENDER?
    • The Lower Mental Body’s ‘Mirror View’ of the Body
    • The Sitcom Personality, Chat Room, or Webcam Thought
    • I’m Talking to a Smartphone
    • I’m a Big Ego, They’re a Little Ego
    • They’re a Big Ego?! … Egoic Rage
  • THE CHAIN OF I AND OTHER, SUBJECT AND OBJECT, SENDER AND RECEIVER
  • HOW TO BALANCE YOUR ‘SENDER CHAKRAS’ WHILE SENDING TELEPATHY
    • I Am I; I Am Only I
    • The Hara Line and the Chakras
  • ABOUT THE NADIS

Dear Ones,

Discussed below are mind control from the telepathic sender’s 6th chakra (third-eye point) and from the sender’s 8th chakra (just above the top of the head). In past, I have referred to the latter as the 8th chakra bow-tie … See my blog category: bow-tie knot

See also … Link: “Why We Experience Telepathy as Mind Control 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 2 August 2016 and published on 8 August 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-ePv ..

WHY WE EXPERIENCE TELEPATHY AS MIND CONTROL

We experience as ‘mind control’ telepathy from another person when the person’s Awareness is placed forward of the center point of the chakra through which that person is sending telepathy; the center point of all but the first and seventh chakras being on the hara line, the line that runs vertically through the body. (See “The Hara Line and the Chakras,” below.)

For instance, the receiver might experience an unpleasant sensation of attempted mind control when the sender is sending through the third-eye point while placing Awareness on the skin of their own forehead, or on the skin between the eyebrows, rather than on the center of the head.

Thus, telepathy that is experienced by the receiver as mind control is the result of frontal imbalance in the telepathic sender’s Awareness of the chakra from which telepathy is being sent.

WHAT CAUSES FRONTAL IMBALANCE IN A TELEPATHIC SENDER?

Why does this frontal imbalance in a telepathic sender occur?

The Lower Mental Body’s ‘Mirror View’ of the Body

Frontal imbalance in a telepathic sender can happen when the sender has a superficial image of his or her physical self, as being, for example, the image they look at in their bathroom mirror. That is because, when a person looks at himself or herself in a mirror, the gaze quite naturally goes to the eyes and the skin of the face.

Image: Young man looking in mirror … https://www.theadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/looking-in-the-mirror.jpg ..

The Lower Mental Body may have this ‘looking in the mirror’ image of the person’s body. In this case, it needs to be trained by the Higher Mental Body to think of itself as more than that.

The Sitcom Personality, Chat Room, or Webcam Thought

Frontal imbalance in a telepathic sender can also happen when a person thinks of himself or herself as a personality, as for example, a player on a sitcom such as is seen on TV. This thought will pull the person’s pure Awareness into their physical eyes, rather than allowing it to remain in the pineal gland, which is traditionally associated with the third-eye point chakra, and which is located in the center of the head.

Image: “Diagram Showing the Pineal and Pituitary Glands,” by Cancer Research UK uploader, 19 January 2016, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_showing_the_pineal_and_pituitary_glands_CRUK_468.svg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International … COMMENTS: Note that the pineal gland is located slightly higher than the eyebrows, and the pituitary gland is located at the level of the bridge of the nose. The corpus callosum, which connects the two hemispheres of the brain, is located just above them. Thus, it may be that concentrating on the third-eye point optimizes the endocrine system through energization of the pineal gland, and also activates cosmic consciousness through energization of the corpus callosum.

Image: “Diagram Showing the Pineal and Pituitary Glands,” by Cancer Research UK uploader, 19 January 2016, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_showing_the_pineal_and_pituitary_glands_CRUK_468.svg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International …

COMMENTS: Note that the pineal gland is located slightly higher than the eyebrows, and the pituitary gland is located at the level of the bridge of the nose. The corpus callosum, which connects the two hemispheres of the brain, is located just above them. Thus, it may be that concentrating on the third-eye point optimizes the endocrine system through energization of the pineal gland, and also activates cosmic consciousness through energization of the corpus callosum.

From the point of view of the subconscious mind, this is because, when we watch TV, our Awareness is mostly in our eyes, which are situated on our face, far from the center of our head. And further, the people in the sitcom are viewed as a flat surface, having no depth. If the subconscious mind perceives the sitcom visualization as lacking physical depth, then it cannot make the jump to physical depth in the person’s body, or to the point in the interior of the head.

The same applies with a visualization of oneself interacting with a computer screen, for instance with live chat or webcam. Visualizing telepathy as live chat or webcam will pull one’s Awareness away from the center of the head and toward the face.

This is an image of a young woman watching a big computer screen close up … http://images.shape.mdpcdn.com/sites/shape.com/files/styles/story_detail/public/story/binge-watching-tv_0.jpg?itok=fNbajDJU ..

See how her attention is in front of her face? See how flat the computer screen is?

I’m Talking to a Smartphone

Frontal imbalance in a telepathic sender can also happen when a person thinks of himself as talking to himself on a smartphone, or taking a photograph of himself with a smartphone. Here is an image from a blog on mastering the fine line between too much and not enough ego … Link: “How to Manage the Fine Line Between Too Much and Not Enough Ego,” by Chelsea Berler,13 March 2015, in Entrepreneur … https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/243902 ..

It is an image of a man taking a picture of himself with a smartphone … https://assets.entrepreneur.com/content/3×2/2000/20150312212324-smug-businessman-ego-business.jpeg?format=pjeg&auto=webp&crop=16:9&width=675&height=380 ..

In the above image, see how there is an invisible ‘attention link’ between the man and what he sees? Also, what he sees is other than himself, but he sees it as himself … as a picture of himself.

This image of a person manipulating a smartphone can get into the subconscious mind, and make it feel that a person, through telepathy, is all about manipulating this other mind that it encounters, and making it do what the person wants … making it into an image of himself. It is as if the telepath were just taking a picture of himself on a smartphone, or expecting the smartphone to repeat his or her own voice back.

I’m a Big Ego, They’re a Little Ego

This smartphone visualization has an additional meaning: A person, thinking of himself as ego, holds in his hand a smartphone, and talks to a person on the smartphone.

At the same time, he holds in his mind the concept of ‘other’ … but views other people as being inferior versions of his own ego. His subconscious mind thinks of him as a big person, talking to a little image of a person on the smartphone. From this it jumps to the conclusion that he is a ‘big ego’ and they are ‘little egos’.  It is as if they were smartphones, and he is the person who is making them do what he wants.

Here is a graphic called ‘Little Ego’. It shows a pretty young woman, lying on her tummy on a big blue balloon. Her legs are splayed, and her skirt is up, showing that her bottom has just been spanked …

(Mature audience only, please; not for children) … http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/photo.goodreads.com/books/1368618273i/17926631._UY200_.jpg ..

I have heard an echo of this image in the astral stories going round. It is a reflection of the notion held by the subconscious mind of men, that women are objects, or little children, that can be forced to submit with ‘discipline’. This attitude toward women is found in some world religions, even today, as an article of faith. The woman is thought of as a ‘little ego’ and the man as a ‘big ego’ who by nature dominates her; it is she who owes him obedience and servitude.

This attitude of patriarchal domination is purely cultural in bias. There have, in times past, been cultures of matriarchal domination with a similar, but opposite cultural bias. In each case, the notion of ‘big’ and ‘little’ creates a situation of frontal imbalance, by pulling the telepathic sender away from his or her hara line visualization, into a smartphone relationship.

They’re a Big Ego?! … Egoic Rage

What happens when the smartphone has a mind of its own? What happens when the telepathic receiver has a thought or emotion contrary to that in the sender’s mind? The subconscious mind of the sender is picturing big ego —> little ego and instead gets big ego —> big ego … What then? What I hear telepathically from senders’ subconscious minds is a kind of egoic rage: They’re a big ego; I will destroy them.

Image of an angry young woman, ‘bending a man’s ear’ … http://answersafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/anger.jpg ..

This egoic rage, welling up as it does from a very deep subconscious level in the telepathic sender, gives to the telepathic receiver a sense of threat energy, and a feeling of intent to control or dominate or even obliterate the receiver’s ‘I’-ness or individuality.

THE CHAIN OF I AND OTHER, SUBJECT AND OBJECT, SENDER AND RECEIVER

In each of the above cases, a mental causal connection is made between the sender’s body and that of the receiver. It is this perception of a bond between the sender’s chakra and the receiver’s chakra (whatever chakra this may be) that is the cause of the imbalance. The weight of the mental connection is like a heavy chain that draws the sender’s chakra off center.

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Image: “The Chain of I and Other, Subject and Object, Sender and Receiver,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett,  8 August 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Silhouettes of 2 people facing each other, and about 4 feet apart. Between their eyes is a chain, that sags down between them, weighed down by an anvil attached at the midpoint of the chain … CREDIT: The weight in the image is adapted from pixabay, CC0 public domain.

Image: “The Chain of I and Other, Subject and Object, Sender and Receiver,” adapted and compiled by Alice B. Clagett,  8 August 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: Silhouettes of 2 people facing each other, and about 4 feet apart. Between their eyes is a chain, that sags down between them, weighed down by an anvil attached at the midpoint of the chain …

CREDIT: The weight in the image is adapted from pixabay, CC0 public domain.

HOW TO BALANCE YOUR ‘SENDER CHAKRAS’ WHILE SENDING TELEPATHY

To balance the ‘sender chakra’ while sending telepathy …

  • Think instead: I am I. I am only I.
  • Visualize your hara line, visualize your pertinent ‘sender’ chakra (for instance, 6th or 8th chakra) as centered on the hara line. Continue with this visualization as you send the telepathy.

I Am I; I Am Only I

Here is an image of three monks walking … http://g02.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1BZDRIFXXXXbIapXXq6xXFXXXn/2015-New-Sale-Original-High-Quality-Hand-Painted-Canvas-font-b-Painting-b-font-Palette-Knife.jpg ..

See how balanced they are? See how there is no object in front of them? Each of them is experiencing  I am I; I am only I.  Not: I and other.

The Hara Line and the Chakras

Here is an image of a standing man, viewed from the side, showing the front and back funnels of chakras 1 through 7, and the colors of the chakras … https://touchysubjects.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/man-side-view-with-chakra-funnels.jpg?w=229&h=545 ..

Here is more about the above image …

The vertical center line, between the red funnel pointing downward at the bottom of the person’s torso, and the violet funnel exiting the top of the person’s head, is approximately the course of the hara line through the human body. These two funnels, the red and the violet, are in fact one long chakra that courses through the hara line of the torso, neck and head. The ‘center’ of this long chakra may be thought of as being shared by the human heart, from an electromagnetic point of view, and by the third chakra (at the navel point), from the perspective of the nerve currents, or ‘nadis’ (see below) of the etheric net.

Not shown in the image are the 8th chakra, and the other new transpersonal chakras, which are above the head.

Also not shown are the new subpersonal chakras beneath the bottom of the torso.

For more on the transpersonal and subpersonal chakras, see … Link: “Sketch of the New Chakra System: 18 Chakras,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 15 July 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-dCo ..

ABOUT THE NADIS

“In the subtle and the causal body, the nadis are channels for so called cosmic, vital, seminal, mental, intellectual, etc. energies (collectively described as prana) and are important for sensations, consciousness and the spiritual aura….

“Yoga texts disagree on the number of nadis in the human body. Hatha Yoga Pradipika and Goraksha Samhita quote 72,000 nadis, each branching off into another 72,000 nadis, whereas Shiva Samhita states 350,000 nadis arise from the navel center….

“All nadis are said to originate from one of two centres; the heart and the kanda, the last being an egg-shaped bulb in the pelvic area, just below the navel….”–from Link: “Nadi (yoga),” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi_(yoga) … Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

Here is an interesting image of the nadis, or nerve currents, of the etheric net …  http://www.timelinetothefuture.com/images/breath_and_meditation/ethericbody.jpg ..

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Filmed on 2 August 2016 and published on 8 August 2016; revised on 7 September 2025
Previously titled: Why We Experience Telepathy as Mind Control

See also … Link: “Why We Experience Telepathy as Mind Control 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 2 August 2016 and published on 8 August 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-ePv ..

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Desire Elementals 2: Helping Other People Awaken to Their Desire Elementals . by Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 27 July 2016; published on 29 July 2016

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Introduction
    • Work of the Spiritual Person with Other People’s Desire Elementals
    • The Desire Elemental Usually Aggregates in the Lower Half of the Body of Light, in the Vicinity of the Viscera
    • What Other People’s Desire Elementals May Say to You
    • Helping Other People’s Higher and Lower Minds to Communicate with Each Other
    • Story about ‘I Will Grab Her’ Desire Elemental
    • Conclusion
  • MORE INFORMATION
  • PHOTOS BY ALICE

Dear Ones,

This is the second video in the Desire Elementals series. This is about how I clair speak with other people’s desire elementals, so that they can begin a conversation with the Higher Mental Bodies of the people they are associated with.

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.

Introduction

This is the second in a series of videos on the desire elemental. This video is about working with other people’s desire elementals so as to spark them, or help them begin to unify those two mental bodies, the Lower and the Higher Mental Body. The ultimate aim is total mastery of mind.

Work of the Spiritual Person with Other People’s Desire Elementals

There is work with the desire elementals of people that you encounter as well. They could be desire elementals belonging to people that you know, or to complete strangers; it does not matter.

Because the desire elementals of other people are always talking to me, even though their Higher Mental Bodies do not know about it … what I want to do is to introduce their Lower Mental Bodies, their desire elementals, to their Higher Mental Bodies … their cerebral cortexes and their voluntary nervous systems, their conscious minds; and not just their subconscious minds.

Usually they are positioned in the lower Body of Light of the person, starting, say, from the waist down; the Lower Quadrant of the Body of Light. And they are feeling that that is where they are; that that is where they ought to be …

The Desire Elemental Usually Aggregates in the Lower Half of the Body of Light, in the Vicinity of the Viscera

Image: “Quadrants of the Body of Light,” Self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 23 December 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: The above image portrays a standing woman, facing forward and surrounded by a yellow oval. The oval is labeled: Body of Light. It is divided into four quadrants labeled Upper Quadrant, Right Quadrant, Left Quadrant, and Lower Quadrant. The Upper Quadrant of the Body of Light begins just below the neck, and includes the 5th or throat chakra and higher, to a foot or two above the head. The Lower Quadrant begins at the bottom of the rib cage, and includes the 3rd chakra or navel point, and lower, down to a foot or two below the feet. The Right Quadrant is in the area of the high and low heart chakra and the right side of the body, from the perspective of the person in the image (not from the perspective of the observer). The Left Quadrant is in the area of the high and low heart chakra and the left side of the body, from the perspective of the person in the image (not from the perspective of the observer). The transpersonal chakras have come ‘on board’ since 2012 as the Incoming Light transforms and enlarges our Bodies of Light. The 10th chakra is said to be located 2 1/2 to 3 feet above the head.

Image: “Quadrants of the Body of Light,” Self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 23 December 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: The above image portrays a standing woman, facing forward and surrounded by a yellow oval. The oval is labeled: Body of Light. It is divided into four quadrants labeled Upper Quadrant, Right Quadrant, Left Quadrant, and Lower Quadrant.

The Upper Quadrant of the Body of Light begins just below the neck, and includes the 5th or throat chakra and higher, to a foot or two above the head.

The Lower Quadrant begins at the bottom of the rib cage, and includes the 3rd chakra or navel point, and lower, down to a foot or two below the feet.

The Right Quadrant is in the area of the high and low heart chakra and the right side of the body, from the perspective of the person in the image (not from the perspective of the observer).

The Left Quadrant is in the area of the high and low heart chakra and the left side of the body, from the perspective of the person in the image (not from the perspective of the observer).

The transpersonal chakras have come ‘on board’ since 2012 as the Incoming Light transforms and enlarges our Bodies of Light. The 10th chakra is said to be located 2 1/2 to 3 feet above the head.

What Other People’s Desire Elementals May Say to You

[continuing with the video …] They usually say things that are very judgmental, like: You are not my kind of person! … or … You wear the wrong clothes! ... something like that, something ‘ingroup-outgroup’, as they say.

Or they say: Hey! Hey! Can we make love? … Or something like that. So it is either the one, or the other.

Helping Other People’s Higher and Lower Minds to Communicate with Each Other

The thing that the person on the spiritual path can do is talk to them with our own Higher Mental Body, our own conscious mind, and say: Go on back to your person, and ask them what to do. Talk to them. You know they love you; they really love you! … And they will go back right away.

Lots of times there will then ensue a conversation: You hate me; you really hate me! … or something like that (this, because they are really not talking together yet).

And so then I say, to the person’s higher mind (this is a different form of telepathy): Say, he’s talking to you … or … She’s talking to you! Why don’t you tell them that you love them! … like that.

If it is a man, usually his Higher Mental Body will not say that exactly, not with enthusiasm. Instead, it might say, with a little exasperation, “Of course I love you.” or “You’re ok, kiddo.”

And then from down below you will hear: I’m not, I’m not! You don’t think that? … You know? There is this big, Puritan mix-up going on. And so I will encourage the Higher Mental Body. I will say: Say it again; go on, it’s ok.

And then the conversation will go on, between those two, the lower mind and the higher mind. And that is exactly what we on the spiritual path are aiming at, with other people: That everyone should have a unified mind. That is how it goes.

Story about ‘I Will Grab Her’ Desire Elemental

There are other things that can happen too. Just now, I was walking down a less traveled footpath in the mountains. And nearby were maybe four or five people; young people, in high spirits. When young people are together and in high spirits, I am always careful, because their desire elementals can be rather rambunctious.

I was coming round the curve, and just got out of the sight of them as they started to come back down the mountain there. And one of the young people sent their desire elemental out to me, with an image of a young child about half as tall as i am … running to meet me and grab me. It was saying: I will grab her! I will grab her! … like that.

This is like what a young person who does not know any better would do. So I said: Go on back to the person that you are with, and you stay right there with them. And I sent my Lower Mental Body skipping beside them, holding their arms down by their sides, in front of the Lower Quadrant of Light of that person for a moment, so that they would get the idea.

And then I said: Here, here! You two talk together! … So they started talking. And further, they started talking with another member of the group; they learned very quickly.

Conclusion

So there is that too: You can project your desire elemental to interact with the desire elemental of someone else in the way that your conscious mind desires.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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MORE INFORMATION

Link: “Desire Elementals Video Series,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 27 July 2016; published on 23 September 2016; revised … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-66q ..

For more on elemental essence and the desire elemental: Link: “A Textbook of Theosophy,” by C.W. Leadbeater. (2004). Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg …  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12902 ..

PHOTOS BY ALICE

Image: “Santa Monica Mountains 3: Mountain Mahogany,” by Alice B. Clagett, 27 July 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Santa Monica Mountains 3: Mountain Mahogany,” by Alice B. Clagett, 27 July 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Santa Monica Mountains 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 27 July 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Santa Monica Mountains 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 27 July 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0

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On the Cyclical Nature and Evolutionary Purpose of Death, Purgatory, and Other Afterlife Experiences . by C.W. Leadbeater

Written and published on 27 July 2016

  • DEATH AS THE LAYING ASIDE OF THE PHYSICAL BODY
  • THE LATER LAYING ASIDE OF THE ASTRAL BODY, AND THEN THE MENTAL BODY, TO DWELL FOR A WHILE IN THE CAUSAL BODY
  • THE CONTINUOUS STAGES OF EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL
  • WILL THE EXPERIENCE OF ASTRAL LIFE BE THAT OF HEAVEN, PURGATORY OR HELL?
  • HOW LONG ARE WE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THE ASTRAL WORLD AND THE MENTAL WORLD AFTER DEATH?

Dear Ones,

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

Link: “A Textbook of Theosophy,” by C.W. Leadbeater. (2004). Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 27 July 2016 … http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12902 … Paragraphing and subheads in the above quoted text are mine. –AC

DEATH AS THE LAYING ASIDE OF THE PHYSICAL BODY

“Death is the laying aside of the physical body; but it makes no more difference to the ego than does the laying aside of an overcoat to the physical man. Having put off his physical body, the ego continues to live in his astral body until the force has become exhausted which has been generated by such emotions and passions as he has allowed himself to feel during earth-life.” (1)

THE LATER LAYING ASIDE OF THE ASTRAL BODY, AND THEN THE MENTAL BODY, TO DWELL FOR A WHILE IN THE CAUSAL BODY

“When that has happened, the second death takes place; the astral body also falls away from him, and he finds himself living in the mental body and in the lower mental world. In that condition he remains until the thought-forces generated during his physical and astral lives have worn themselves out; then he drops the third vehicle in its turn and remains once more an ego in his own world, inhabiting his causal body.” (1)

THE CONTINUOUS STAGES OF EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL

“There is, then, no such thing as death as it is ordinarily understood. There is only a succession of stages in a continuous life—stages lived in the three worlds one after another. The apportionment of time between these three worlds varies much as man advances. The primitive man lives almost exclusively in the physical world, spending only a few years in the astral at the end of each of his physical lives. As he develops, the astral life becomes longer, and as intellect: unfolds in him, and he becomes able to think, he begins to spend a little time in the mental world as well. The ordinary man of civilized races remains longer in the mental world than in the physical and astral; indeed, the more a man evolves the longer becomes his mental, life and the shorter his life in the astral world.” (1)

WILL THE EXPERIENCE OF ASTRAL LIFE BE THAT OF HEAVEN, PURGATORY OR HELL?

“The astral life is the result of all feelings which have in them the element of self. If they have been directly selfish, they bring him into conditions of great unpleasantness in the astral world; if, though tinged with thoughts of self, they have been good and kindly, they bring him a comparatively pleasant though still limited astral life. Such of his thoughts and feelings as have been entirely unselfish produce their results in his life in the mental world; therefore that life in the mental, world cannot be other than blissful.

“The astral life, which the man has made for himself either miserable or comparatively joyous, corresponds to what Christians call purgatory; the lower mental life, which is always entirely happy, is what is called heaven.

“Man makes for himself his own purgatory and heaven, and these are not planes, but states of consciousness. Hell does not exist; [by this I believe he means the concept of Hell as eternal damnation. –Alice] it is only a figment of the theological imagination; but a man who lives foolishly may make for himself a very unpleasant and long enduring purgatory.” (1) [by this I believe he means, such a man will temporarily experience the hellworlds, until his astral matter has become refined enough for him to rise to higher levels of the astral world. –Alice] 

HOW LONG ARE WE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THE ASTRAL WORLD AND THE MENTAL WORLD AFTER DEATH?

“Neither purgatory nor heaven can ever be eternal, for a finite cause cannot produce an infinite result. The variations in individual cases are so wide that to give actual figures is somewhat misleading.

“If we take the average man of what is called the lower middle class, the typical specimen of which would be a small shopkeeper or shop-assistant, his average life in the astral world would be perhaps about forty years, and the life in the mental world about two hundred.

“The man of spirituality and culture, on the other hand, may have perhaps twenty years of life in the astral world and a thousand in the heaven life.

“One who is specially developed [a spiritual adept who was spend this life working for the good of all beings everywhere, for instance –Alice] may reduce the astral life to a few days or hours and spend fifteen hundred years in heaven.” (1)

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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FOOTNOTE

(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 in the above quoted text are mine. –AC

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