{"id":10661,"date":"2018-10-12T05:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T04:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=10661"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:13:44","slug":"about-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/about-immortality\/","title":{"rendered":"About Immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The yearning for immortality is fundamental in man. Perhaps it is only due to the instinct for self-preservation, or to a wish caused by the fear of death \u2014 or is it a clue, a more or less clear intuition of an essential truth, a glorious reality?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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\nThere are two ways to answer this question, in order to free ourselves and others from materialistic denial and from doubt about immortality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By Roberto Assagioli, published 15.4 2011 in the “Psicosintesi” Magazine <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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1.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> The scientific proof of our survival.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The amount of evidence gathered by psychic researchers all over the world is so impressive that anyone who takes the trouble to read all the books on the subject, with a mind free from preconceptions, comes to admit the survival and activity of the human psyche after the death of the physical body. When intelligent men, accustomed to the use of the scientific method, such as the physicists William Crookes and Oliver Lodge, the philosopher Charles Richet and many others, come to these conclusions after years of painstaking experiments, their findings should have the same weight as what they, and other scientists, have done in other fields of scientific investigation. Such evidence of human survival is important because it destroys the barrier erected by materialism and gives access to a series of invisible planes, levels or realms in which humans and other psychic beings exist and operate. Proof of survival is not enough, however, to solve the central mystery of the psyche, therefore we must go further and deeper and follow the second way.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2. The direct realization of immortality<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

To reach this realization we must ask ourselves: \u201cWhat or who is immortal?\u201d The answer to this question involves the analysis or knowledge of the various aspects of levels of the psyche. They have been described in different ways during the various eras, but I believe the following classification accords as much with esoteric teachings as with the discoveries of modern psychology.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The levels are:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. instinctive<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. emotional<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. mental<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. spiritual<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It is important to note that the first level, the instinctive, is for the most part unconscious or subconscious; the second and third levels are partly conscious and partly subconscious; the fourth usually remains almost completely superconscious. The realization of immortality can only be achieved through, or within, the spiritual psyche.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    So the problem can only be solved by raising our consciousness to that level, or by opening our minds to the revelations that come from that level. This is possible and has been accomplished by a significant minority of people at all times and everywhere. Founders of religions, initiates and Masters, mystics and prophets, philosophers and poets make up this imposing \u201ccloud of witnesses.\u201d The Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita, the Old and the New Testament, Plato, Plotinus, mystics of all religions and, in modern times, the testimonies of intuitives and inspired people such as Walt Whitman and E. Carpenter, and those collected and interpreted by Buck, James, Winslow Hall and Ouspensky, all complement and corroborate each other.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n