Consciousness

[anagogy]

In the physical reality, I am constantly thinking about life and the meaning thereof.  I feel like i have a very strong conscious awareness, but during dreams, i only sometimes realize i have conscious awareness.  Normally, during dreams, i am moving along the story with no real awareness, and I don't have a full memory, maybe a memory bank pertaining to the dream.  Only sometimes i realize who I am and have conscious awareness.

My question is, when we die, do we have a lower, same, or higher conscious awareness than we do in this physical reality?  Do our physical bodies give us more conscious awareness?  I don't know if i should be judging based on how i am during dreams or what.

What are your understanding?

Thanks

The quality of your awareness in the dream state is simply a matter of practice. You can carry full waking consciousness into the dream plane (time/space). Again, it just takes a great amount of practice (intention repeatedly confirmed). The natural habit of most human beings is to aimlessly drift off as they sleep, get absorbed in their thoughts, and regenerate their minds by accumulating vital forces while they sleep. When you get good at taking your waking consciousness into the dream state, people start calling it "astral projection" (one step beyond lucid dreaming)

The body acts as an anchor for your spirit to the lower planes. Thus, most people dream in the lower astral, just slightly out of phase with physical reality, occasionally getting out further into the higher planes, where they might have prophetic dreams or interesting creative dreams. In fact many people even have NDE's in the lower astral (the personal zone) as well. The only difference is, during NDE's they are experiencing it in full waking consciousness because their anchor (the body) is all jacked up. Most people have never had this experience, and thus they take everything they see as The Ultimate Truth which I must now start a religion over. This is why there is so much variation in NDE's. In the lower astral, your personal beliefs will warp intelligent infinity to your personal perspective. Thus, all interactions from higher intelligences must needs take on the appearance of their personal religious ideology that they subscribe to. On the higher planes, the personal filters for reality are released, allowing in less distorted versions of the One Infinite Creator.

After death, you have a much higher consciousness than in the physical because the anchor is cut. Just like the anchor keeps you anchored to the physical, the spirit when out of the body is naturally anchored to the other end of the pole, thus, you naturally return to the higher self for healing after death (the indigo body). Some souls stubbornly refuse to go home after death, fearing divine retribution, and become earth bound ghosts (or lower astral ghosts trapped in emotional loops -- nightmares). Many of them can't see "higher beings" any better than Earth people can, thus they generally just move about familiar locations, repeating rote actions they did in life, often with the same warped physical life habits. Much like jello molds released from the mold, they retain much of the shape and limitations they did in life, which eventually decays, because entropy still holds sway on the lower planes, though less so than the physical world, and then, one way or another, are released from this torture and like a cork begin to float up to the higher planes (once the accumulated lower subtle matter decays -- sort of like dying again).

To get a concept of how most souls behave after death, Michael Newton's books do a good job of explaining how this is for most people. Though, I strongly suspect Newton left out a great deal of the "way out there" stuff that inevitably cropped up during his sessions. The books were a bridge for normal people to understand death, which they serve quite admirably.