But people are apt to forget that every night in the hours of sleep we die to the physical plane and are alive and functioning elsewhere. But the process of daily sleep and the process of occasional dying are identical, with the one difference that in sleep the magnetic thread or current of energy along which the life force streams is preserved intact, and constitutes the path of return to the body. In death, this life thread is broken or snapped. When this has happened, the conscious entity cannot return to the dense physical body, and that body, lacking the principle of coherence, then disintegrates. Thus, the great synthesis emerges and destruction, death, and dissolution are, in reality, naught but life processes.
Abstraction is indicative of process, progress and development.
This is a deep and largely unrealized truth. Death is in reality unconsciousness of that which may be functioning in some form or another, but in a form of which the spiritual entity is totally unaware. All rights reserved.