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say that it is such and such a person whom one has known, for
people as we know them are made of what? — of all their physical
experiences, all their vital reactions, all their mental formations —
that is, the body, the character, the thought — and with these we
have a human being! Well, all that cannot persist after death un-
less it is organised and centralised around the psychic being and
to the extent it is perfectly unified with the psychic. Otherwise all
this mixture is dissolved and the psychic being alone remains, at
times just as a flame, at times as a completely conscious being.
This of course is the general law. Now there are bridges, as
it were, “protected passages” which have been built in the vital
world in order to cross over all these dangers. There are atmo-
spheres which receive people leaving their body, give them shel-
ter, give them protection. There are all kinds of other conditions;
what I have told you just now is the normal state of those who
die, of ordinary human beings, but as soon as we come to a little
higher type of humanity, all these conditions change. The general
law remains unless there is a special higher development within
the being. There are people with so total a cohesion in their being
that they no longer depend upon the body — not at all — whether
it be there or not there.
But all this development does not come about just like that,
simply by thinking about it from time to time, desiring it still less
often and forgetting it most of the time — no, it is not like that
that it can happen. These are disciplines, I may say, at least as ar-
duous as the strictest spiritual disciplines.... Essentially it is for this
that we are on the earth. Truly speaking, human beings were made
for this purpose, to do that work, and it is perhaps because they
refuse to do it that there is so much chaos in the world. If they did
it truly, things would go much better.
CWM 6: 54-57 The Mother

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