Hi Mattimo,

Welcome to the board. It's an interesting idea that perhaps the astral being might have a "lifespan" in which it exists. Some of us tend to think of a certain "state of being" as being immortal simply because it IS in the afterlife but I really don't know about that.

It seems that some might be reborn into the physical and perhaps some might be "reborn" into some other state which we can't describe, perhaps like being merged into some kind of higher consciousness. I tend to see myself as simutaneously existing in more than one state. There is my physical body here, and perhaps many "layers" of "higher" or "deeper" consciousness, which I strive to experience and understand, to which I feel very connected.

I have heard so many different ideas discussed, and some say that it is not easy to be reborn into the physical, so if it is "required" then it would make sense that a certain "lifespan" would be required in the astral body as well. But that is almost to look at it through 3-dimensional eyes. I tend to think that all existence is simultaneous and preserved in a way that is unfathomable to our 3D or C1, as Bruce calls it, understanding.  

I find these kind of statements about specific time periods of existence difficult to accept anymore because I am beginning to completely question and alter my own understanding of time. I am completely losing track of my sense of time, and it seems to be expanding and contracting constantly as I deliberately open my mind to possibility.

love, blink

chuckles here. I would like very much to upgrade my cable. however, it is too costly!
but I am starting to think differently about what costly means versus downright being a tightwad.   

sorry, I think I'm meandering..I agree with your philosophy of life is a movie every since I read ACIM and The Path.  and to focus is to change the channel.

thats interesting about the astral having a lifespan. have thought often about it. have read similar material about the lifespan there. 500 to 1,000 linear years of our time is a lot of leeway in there. still, I think time is speeded up over there and the measuring of it is so different..theres no sun or moon to keep track of the days unless u desire to create a thought form of a sun or moon to mark the days passing.

heres a little ditty I read once. this guy who was a drunk died. he rose to the astral level and some retrievers came to get him to a higher level. come with us they said. he asked where and why. they said we need to take you to your higher self to do the merge thing. he said ok, sounds good. so at that moment two of him appeared. the good side of him went with the retrievers while the addictive lower natured astral being stayed on the lower astral for a short life span. the lower nature went into an astral counterpart of a favorite bar and vicariously inhaled the fumes of another drunk.  I heard these lower natures will gradually begin to dissolved their molecules and lost lucidity and be recycled.

just a thought. the real part of the soul goes on. I think the negative thought forms are what dissolves.

Cathy, click on "view all smilies" to your left and the bathtub icon is there. love, alysia