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In the last article we discussed terminology that described psi phenomenon and how it applied to practical psychic development. Now we will delve in the world of survival after death or after-life consciousness.
To recap, parapsychology studies three kinds of unusual events: ESP, mind-matter interaction and survival after death. For the purpose of developing psychic abilities it is essential to understand ESP and mind-matter interaction because it is the bulk of most psychic abilities.
Extra sensory perception (also called AIR – anomalous information reception) describes telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, retrocognition and presentiment. Psychokinesis or telekinesis falls under the category of mind-matter interaction.
In parapsychology the term clairvoyance seems to be an umbrella term for all sense-based psychic abilities, but for the general public they are classified by each sense they represent. They are clairvoyance (sight), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (touch), clairguzance (taste) and clairalience (smell.) When psychics or readers convey their abilities they seem to use these terms more often than the others.
Survival after death includes all aspects of after-life consciousness even those terms that are generally thought to describe paranormal activity. The paranormal field has borrowed heavily from parapsychology though most field investigators don’t understand the correlation. It is essential to understand survival after death terminology for any type of spirit communication including paranormal investigation. Often, it seems to be forgotten that paranormal activity is a form of spirit communication. Or that it deals with topics of after-life consciousness and how it applies to the larger questions including why we are living in the first place and where we go when we die.
The first set of survival after death terminology deals with the living. Or those who have had a brush with death and who have lived to tell their tale. A near death experience or NDE refers to a core experience from a person who has been revived from nearly dying. A near death experience is usually described as a feeling of peace, a visual of bright lights or a tunnel with bright at the end, and sometime it involves looking down at your own body.
The experience of objectively staring down at your own body is called an out-of-body experience or OBE. It usually accompanies a feeling of being detached or separated from your physical body. This occurrence has been described in sleep or meditation through astral projection, but parapsychology only deals with incidents that pertain to near death experiences.
Another aspect of after-life consciousness is reincarnation. It is the belief that we have successive lives both in the past and the future. A theory suggests that our souls are constant but as we evolve our higher self develops a new personality which manifests into the physical world as a person. Although in this life we are a different person, parts of our higher consciousness still "remember" the other "personalities" in the other successive lives. These memories are often referred to as past lives.
Edgar Cayce believed that reincarnation and karma were connected as part of natural law; that each "personality" was supposed to teach us certain spiritual lessons through a sort of spiritual evolution. Our souls started out as animals and we progressed through our spiritual evolution we were eventually transformed into a human soul. Whether or not you believe in the idea of reincarnation as a spiritual concept, parapsychologists have found enough evidence that it is considered a true phenomenon that is studied.
The next few terms of after-life consciousness refer to definitions commonly used in paranormal investigations. Placed memory or residual memory is the ability for a location or building to hold the recorded impressions of people or events that have happened in the past. Basically, it’s a loop in time that keeps playing over and over again. Typically, this is the category that most paranormal activity falls under. Ghosts are usually not the source of the haunting, trapped energy is the culprit. The term haunting refers to any phenomenon that includes apparitions, noises, sounds, movement of objects, etc.
A discarnate or a ghost is only used to describe activity that involves interactive, intelligent phenomenon that seems to have some sort of after-life consciousness including personality and a thought process. Without an after-life consciousness a haunting is always considered place memory.
A poltergeist was thought of as paranormal activity associated with a mischievous ghost. Common attributes of poltergeist activity include moving objects, doors opening and closing and extreme cases fire.
Now, poltergeist activity is thought to be induced by mind-matter interaction or psychokinesis. It is now common practice to associate poltergeist activity with a living agent rather than a discarnate. It is usually centered around one person, most often an adolescent; though poltergeist activity can manifest with anyone who has strong PK.
To have an understanding of the basic survival after death terminology will give you a strong base in which to use practical spirit communication in your every day life or paranormal investigating. Spirit communication should be something that we encompass as a part of the human experience. We should have access to the knowledge given down by or ancestors or our dearly deceased. Or even the evolution of our other lives. The more we understand the more we are aware and awareness is the backbone of all spiritual evolution. So, maybe your next life you will evolve into something greater and more rewarding and not end up a bug.
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