Spiritual concepts
Bardo
Bardo is a Tibetan word which is used to describe the period between a person having died and the point where they are born into a new incarnation. It is sometimes called the 'life between lives', but this term is not strictly accurate, as there is no 'life' as such even though there is activity, and consciousness is maintained. 'Life' exists between birth into the physical and then death in the physical. In Bardo on the other hand one is a disembodied spirit - the Higher spirit.
Some background
The Higher Spirit together with our Perceptions cycle round and round from death to birth and death again and forms the basis for any new ‘person’ or a new ‘soul’ on birth.
On birth we are given a Personality suited to our Destiny. Personality is different from the Higher spirit. It is that permanent set of attributes - the character traits that make us who we are – a recognisable human being our conscious self.
The Higher Spirit may over many lifetimes have more than one Personality. It will have many personalities over the lives [time in-between birth and death] in which it participates.
But as you can see from the diagram, during what we term 'death', when the Higher spirit has no physical body, perceptions are still being made. This is the Bardo.
Observations
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- Chronicle of the Rebirth of Katsugorō – 05 The account as related by Matsudaira Kwanzan Sama
- Dr Minot Judson Savage - Can Telepathy Explain ? – 09 An Agnostic's Experience of automatic writing
- Marryat, Florence - The Spirit World – What happens on death
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Gary Pennington 03
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Gary Pennington 04
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Heather Whiteholme 06
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Heather Whiteholme 07
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Jenny Saunders 06
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Linda Irving [extract from full case history]
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Michael Gallander 05
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Michael Gallander 06
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Michael Gallander 07
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Paula flies in the sky waiting to be born
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Proof of the existence of past lives
- Whitton, Dr Joel - The Bardo – a Summary of Case histories
- Whitton, Dr Joel - The social worker who experienced seven Bardos
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Watching her own birth