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William Atkinson / Yogi Ramacharaka's

Life Beyond Death

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The Other Side - There is NO Death - The Planes Of Life - The Astral Plane - After Death - The Soul-Slumber - The Soul's Awakening - Astral Plane Geography - Primitive Soul State - Astral Religious Experience - Astral Heavens and Hells - Astral Self Expression - Astral Plane Occupation - Astral Companionship - Spirit Communication - Earth-Bound Souls - Astral Shells - The Second Soul-Sleep - Re-Birth - Beyond Reincarnation - Contents

of their heaven as a state rather than a place. The Western mind finds it hard to form the abstract concept, and naturally falls back on the old idea of a heaven in space.

The Oriental mind, on the contrary, finds it quite easy to grasp the idea of the several planes of existence. Centuries of familiar thought on the subject has rendered the concept as clear and definite as that of place. We have met Western thinkers who smilingly confessed that they could not divest their concept of "planes " with that of a level strata, or layer of some kind of material substance. But this conception is as far from the truth as is the idea of mere place. A plane is a state, not a place in any sense of the word. And the student must learn to eliminate the idea of place from that of plane.

A plane is a condition or state of activity in the eternal energy of spirit in which the Cosmos lives, and moves and has its being. In any given point of space there may be many planes of activity. Taking our examples from the physical world, let us use the ordinary vibration of sound as an illustration. The air may be filled with many notes of the musical scale. Each note is simply a certain degree

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