Life Beyond Time

I realized that thought is secondary to feeling, and spirit is secondary to the soul.

However, my model of development at that time still remained a straight line, leading from the past to the future. Transitioning to another level was quite difficult.

The Egyptian pyramids came to mind. Why were these cyclopean, colossal structures built only to bury pharaohs?

It’s hard to believe that humans engage in meaningless, foolish actions. As is known, the most grandiose constructions were tied to religious cults — this was true for all ancient civilizations.

It’s unimaginable that, simply for entertainment, people would expend so much effort and time building structures that served no purpose.

The construction of such massive edifices can only testify to one thing: their significance far outweighed all of humanity's daily concerns, which addressed their immediate needs.

Why were the pyramids built? Why did the entirety of Egyptian religion essentially revolve around the cult of the dead? Over time, I began to understand.

If spiritual field structures are primary to the body, then they are also primary to time.

Life in the universe emerged as a unified spiritual-field structure, which later materialized at the physical level.

This invisible spiritual world, of which the afterlife is a part, governs our world.

Thus, the cult of the deceased, who, having passed into the afterlife, could assist those still living, becomes entirely logical.

Sleep resembles death, and some people in dreams can see the future or receive revelations.

These phenomena, touching a higher realm through sleep and death, give people an understanding that the world is far more complex than it seems at first glance.

In reality, the external world is but a tiny territory compared to what lies beyond our consciousness.

It appears that the formation of religion began with the realization that sleep and death offer access to a new reality, one with which communication is possible.

This access to subtle planes not only allowed for the receipt of information about the future but also for control over the surrounding world.

When a person dies, the superficial, more recent structures fall away, while the deeper, foundational ones continue to exist. This is akin to leaves falling from a tree while its branches remain.

When a person dies, their soul transitions to those layers of the subtle world that we call the afterlife.

In this state, the soul gains access to vast information encompassing the past, present, and future.

There are numerous cases where individuals who returned to this world after clinical death exhibited knowledge they could not have acquired during ordinary life.

Some time ago, a distant relative of mine passed away.

When a person is deeply attached to this world, their soul may linger for a while before truly departing. He appeared in dreams to his close ones almost daily.

His wife shared that he appeared to her on the ninth day after his death and said that everything was fine with him.

They spoke, but she noticed something strange: he lacked male sexual characteristics.

I explained to her that angels are genderless. Before the physical embodiment of life, the concept of gender did not exist; it emerged later.

On the ninth day, as the soul detaches from the body and moves into the subtle planes, it separates from earthly aspects, transitioning to another stage of existence.

This stage can be called archaic; it existed in the past and will exist in the future.

After nine days, the soul loses its connection to sexual aspects. It’s as if human souls transition into the angelic realm.

Some time later, the deceased appeared to his daughter, and they had an interesting conversation.

During his lifetime, the father had damaged a car, which was being repaired at the time of his death. The car was in the shop for about a month after his passing.

The girl shared that her deceased father greatly liked how the car had been repaired, even describing its new appearance.

This shows that from the afterlife, it is possible to see what happens in our world.

Interestingly, when asked by his daughter about life in the afterlife, he explained that they don’t walk but fly using their desires.

What’s notable is that this 12-year-old girl had never thought about such things; she simply relayed what she had seen and heard in her dream.

Some time later, he again appeared to his wife in a dream, offering her advice. Curious, I asked what advice he had given her.

She replied, «He told me not to make rigid plans for the future.»

I knew she was planning a summer vacation and realized he was preparing her, hinting that these plans wouldn’t materialize. And so it happened.

Why is the future visible from the afterlife?

When we have physical bodies, we are accustomed to dividing time into past, present, and future.

For us, the present is usually a single day of light. Yesterday there was sun, tomorrow there will be another sunrise.

We are used to linking time intervals to processes in the material world.

But in the afterlife, there are no physical objects. Time there appears differently, and what we call the past, present, and future can be seen simultaneously.

The subtler and higher the planes, the broader the scope of time.

S. N. Lazarev, «Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit»