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upon this, upon this vitality that goes out, and feed upon it. So
long as a person is alive, they cannot touch him. For, you have
all had the experience of a nightmare in which, when the situa-
tion becomes really very dangerous, suddenly you wake up — you
come back into your body, for the body is your protection. In the
physical they can do nothing to you but when you are completely
outside the physical (and even this link I spoke about serves as a
protection to a certain extent when you go out), but if the links
are broken and you are entirely without a body, well, unless you
take advantage of special circumstances... as for instance when
a person is much loved by others who are yet alive; if at that mo-
ment these people who love him concentrate their thought and
love on the departed one, he finds a refuge therein, and this pro-
tects him completely against those entities; but one who passes
away without anyone’s having a special attachment for him, either
because he is surrounded by people he has harmed and who do
not love him or by people who are in a terribly unconscious state
— he is like a prey delivered to these forces. And that indeed is
an experience that’s difficult to bear. They cannot touch anything
else except what belongs to their own domain, that is, the most
material vital — the higher vital escapes them altogether, they can
do nothing there. And so, this material vital goes out but the other
remains; and this higher vital is attacked by other dangers, simply
that. And if it also disappears, the mind remains. But behind all this
is the psychic being which nothing can touch, which is above all
possible attacks, and it indeed is free to go where it wants. Usu-
ally — unless it has a special opportunity and has reached a state
of complete development — it goes to rest in the psychic worlds.
There it enters into a kind of beatific contemplation in which it re-
mains, and this is an assimilation of all its experiences, and when it
has finished assimilating them and resting, well, it starts preparing
to come down again for a new life. That being nothing can touch.
But so very few are conscious of their psychic that one can hardly

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