Lets assume for a moment…”

That Einstein was correct when he said that we are slowed down sound and light waves.

Clearly, to all those whose vision is locked into a range similar to our own, we do appear solid, although according to some we are mostly empty space dancing around atoms.

If we were to look at the different ‘energy’ bodies, the ‘Etheric’ known to some as the Nadi’s, a fine web of information, in a frequency range beyond our normal ability to see, being about 5 centimetres metres out from the physical body, then the Emotional field, sometimes called the Astral, and then, further out, the Mental or Causal field, again of increasing frequencies beyond our ability to see, then we can begin to understand Einsteins comment.

Following this we are so much more than our physical body, the further out we go the higher the frequencies become. It could then be said that these energy bodies, and I believe there to be more than I have listed, are like transformers, reducing frequency as they get closer to the body until we get to the slowest frequencies that make up the physical form.

So, slowed down sound and light waves.

Again, assuming this to be true, then we are, essentially, beings of light,( or pure consciousness?) inhabiting a physical form. Possibly we have had to slow down in order to reside in the physical body.

Being born in the body, it takes a while to assimilate, to get used to this form and the denseness of the matter of the body.

Once we are used to the body we begin to experience life independently from those who raised us.. We spend whatever time we have in this body subscribing to certain beliefs, stories, that we are told by those who ‘came’ before us. Part of that conditioning is to take our selves seriously and to identify with thoughts, emotions and feelings as if they belonged to us. This identification forms habitual behaviour patterns, which in turn form addictions to various chemicals, produced by the body.

When it comes time to return to this state of pure consciousness the addictions formed are not always easy to break. We get attached to various behaviours, various experiences, even various people that we may find hard to let go of.

We hear stories about near death experiences failing to recognise that these are just projections of the state of mind of the person passing, we take those stories as possibly being real, in turn this creates within us expectations of life after death. We may then project these expectations into the process of dying and create another reality.

Alternatively, and I suspect this happens to most, the addictions and attachments that we have been unable, for whatever reason, to let go of take control when the body dies, when the ‘mind’ falls away, the ‘driver’ as it were, ceases to exist.

It is the expectations, held in the Mental or Causal Field that prevent us from returning into the True State of mind (A Buddhist description for the state of pure consciousness) The energy, or charge, associated with the various attachments, which may well include fear, carry our awareness into what in Buddhism is referred to as a Bardo. (A Bardo is a Realm of Becoming – a transitory state arising as a result of various charge still being held onto at the moment of death).

See it like another rabbit hole that we fall down as a result of still unexpressed fears or desires. Now, whether a physical body is ‘reborn’ into a Bardo or it is simply a projection arising out of the Mental / Causal Field is not really important, For if the ‘light’ that we are is convinced it is inhabiting a body, and it is surrounded by other ‘lights’ who also believe they inhabit a body then it makes no difference, body or not, the belief is what carries this through.

Are we then living in a Bardo now, more than likely this is the case. Not a beginning, not an end, just a brief stop along a longer journey. A journey that will continue all the while we identify with the body, its thought and emotions, the ‘light’ that we are always attached to physical experiences.

Returning to the True State of Mind is a basic ‘goal’ of any Buddhist.

The majority, it seems to me, are not aware of this, so deep down the rabbit hole of experience are they that this question never presents itself.

And how could it? There are many talking about the need to return to this True State of Mind and various methods are offered to assist the traveller but few work, it is hard not to get caught in the dogma of certain teachings, people telling their stories, trying to make sense of a story, trying to moderate, manipulate or modify a story. Stories which ultimately must be completely let go of if one is to ever hope to return to a state of pure consciousness.

Ultimately ‘Acceptance’ is the key to change, but without a greater understanding of what this means it is a very difficultly road to walk.

All paths must eventually be released, all must must self destruct. If the path you are on just further entraps you in a belief then look elsewhere for a path that that has been designed to self destruct once certain understandings / knowings have been reached.