Death experience

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Death experience is presented from an anthroposophical point of view in this way: Death does not extinguish life, which has an independent etheric reality, but it finally separates from the physical body, whereupon the latter is inevitably given over to decay. At the moment of death, the processes of death, which already give us the basis for our consciousness during our entire life on Earth, increase to an immense degree. At the moment of death, consciousness shines so brightly as we can never experience it during our life on earth. Again and again, people who have already come to the threshold of death, but could be brought back once more, report from their near-death experience of this radiant experience of light that arises when the whole life forces are flung out of the physical body and arouse their tremendous reverberations in the soul. The consciousness that awakens with death is incomparably stronger, richer and more saturated with reality than our earthly waking day consciousness. So strong is this light of consciousness that shines forth in death that it illuminates the whole of the dead person's further existence. This soul light is so intense and dazzling that the dead person cannot distinguish any details in it at first, and only as it gradually dims do individual details become perceptible.

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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