The concept of afterlife refers to a “continued existence in some form after physiological death.” A number of religions embrace this concept, believing in two possible versions, that of reincarnation (the rebirth in new bodies or forms) and eternal life life (occurring in either heaven or hell).
Chris Carter is an author who has explored the idea of life after death by making an in-depth analysis of the experience of British poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, Frederic William Henry Myers.
Myers, who died in 1901, aged 57, gave detailed descriptions of his afterlife experience, which served as the foundation of Carter’s book, The Case for the Afterlife.
“Myers described a stupendous journey of the immortal soul through the various planes or spheres of existence, beginning with Earth,” Carter wrote.
The British pot explained the seven plane journeys, with Earth representing level one.
The second level represents a “temporary resting place on the borders of two worlds.”
“The time spent in Hades is said to vary with the needs of the individual, with children often requiring hardly any rest at all,” he wrote.
According to Carter, Myers wrote, “I died in Italy, a land I loved, and I was very weary at the time of my passing. For me Hades was a place of rest, a place of half-lights and drowsy peace.”
The third level is that of terrene imagination, ad while on this plane, you you live pretty much as how you lived on Earth.
“Not everyone enjoys an idyllic existence on the third plane: the lower levels are described as dark, gloomy, desolate, in which there are no children, but only those who, as adults on Earth, had chosen to lead selfish, evil lives.
“How long they remain in this nether region depends on how long they choose to remain in a selfish, morally undeveloped state.”
According to Myers descriptions, the fourth level is where he eventually ended up. It is the first “true heaven world” with colors like we have never seen.
The plane of flame is the fifth level of the afterlife, as analyzed by Carter based on Myers descriptions.
Level Six, or the Plane of Light, is when the person has completely disappeared and only exists “as white light, as the pure thought of their Creator.”
Since he hadn’t reached this level of afterlife, Myers claimed he had heard of it from other who had experienced it.
At this stage, the person joins “the immortals.”
The last level, or level seven, isn’t when we see Hell or Heaven, because according to Carter those are concepts only taught by religion.
Further, he wrote that the mind creates the fire of hell, not some place where others torture you, and that you don’t meet God in heaven.
“Myers, in his post-mortem communications, describes God as being far, far above the human, and we… only can come close in what he describes as the seventh plane,” Carter wrote.
He added: “Based on my extensive reading of various communications via mediums, the reason the newly departed do not see God is simply because we are, at first, too primitive and, immediately after leaving the Earth, occupy planes of existence not nearly exalted or advanced enough to closely approach the divine.
The last level provides the opportunity to connect with God.
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