Page 115 - Spirit and Mind. Vol 1

Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

At that age, they are very susceptible to alcohol, drugs and nicotine. All of these
substances maximally break open the spirit, which is not ready for such a process.
This opening up on the level of the lower astral leads to a process of consolidation of
the spirit's structure and the lower astral level of the planet into one system. A
kind of imprinting of the spirit by the lower astral’s template occurs.

Concomitantly, an influx of primary matters typical for the lower astral
penetrates the spirit. To break loose from this lower astral "captivity" one would have
to expend a huge amount of vital energy — but this effort would be in vain. Such

potential can be used for evolutionary progress but not for extricating oneself from
the lower astral swamp. Very often, the plunge into the lower astral is too deep to
escape. One simply lacks sufficient potential for this to happen. To be sure, in most
cases the individual does not undergo physical death but he does suffer evolutionary
death. The lower astral swamp sucks him in completely and dooms him to
evolutionary stasis until death. Only in the next reincarnation does the spirit get a
chance to continue its evolutionary development, pro-vided it does not fall into the
same trap again. This period of evolutionary development is the most vulnerable
stage in human life and the most needful of vigilance.

While instances of this abound, I should like to mention one example in
particular...

During one of my public lectures, after working with the audience as a group, I
stepped off the stage to attend to individuals who were on overload from my work
and required my intervention to restore them to normal. Usually after a few seconds
of one-on-one work, the subject returns to normal and I continue with the next one in
need of my help. During this process, I noticed that one young woman, who was not
too bright to begin with, had dropped into a stupor.

I returned her to consciousness as usual, and was about to help another subject

when she again lapsed into unconsciousness. Whenever this occurs, I have to be
especially vigilant. Telepathic con-tact with her spirit gave me a very unexpected
answer. As a result of overload, her spirit had been expelled from her body, thus
liberating it from the "prison" of the present physical body.

The freed spirit was delighted with the release from that "primitive" body which
had been un-able to develop it to a level consistent with its quality. Thus the reason
for the woman's instability became clear: The spirit had tried to escape from the
disliked body and I had forced it back in to continue trying to "open up" and develop
that body.

The young woman totally returned to consciousness after the forced return of
her spirit. She had no understanding of what had just happened to her. Only the
inadvertent witnesses were shocked by what they had seen and heard. As we can see
from this example, a spirit is sometimes not quite able to be reactivated in a current
physical body — especially if it is already more advanced in development than that
body.

Now let us return to the scrutiny of the human spirit on its odyssey through the
"evolutionary jungle..."

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